"....people who will nit-pick well-written stories that have been beta'd, edited and where you know the author knows their stuff. While stories making blatant factual mistakes let alone have spelling mistakes left and right are praised like they're the best thing since sliced bread."
Ironic you mention this. Not too long ago a friend, who is a writer in fandom and a very very good one, said the very same thing. She said while the best sometimes are nitpicked or totally overlooked, the stuff which is full of errors etc. not only in content but punctuation, grammar etc. is praised heavily
It makes no sense to me, but it didn't either when I was asked to judge The stuff that made it to the finals was so full of errors that it left me no choice in one but to leave the following note: If she continues writing, she NEEDS a beta badly
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Date: 2011-10-17 09:22 pm (UTC)From:Ironic you mention this. Not too long ago a friend, who is a writer in fandom and a very very good one, said the very same thing.
She said while the best sometimes are nitpicked or totally overlooked, the stuff which is full of errors etc. not only in content but punctuation, grammar etc. is praised heavily
It makes no sense to me, but it didn't either when I was asked to judge
The stuff that made it to the finals was so full of errors that it left me no choice in one but to leave the following note:
If she continues writing, she NEEDS a beta badly