Dear Author

[erastes]

No, you are not very unique.

No-one reins over anyone, and if you need to tug on a horses reigns, you'd better be prepared to be smacked by me because the horse is too damned nice.

Want to get involved in gay sex? Good for you!  Best if you learn the difference between prostate and prostrate though, huh?

Please do not send your contemporary fantasy novella to Speak Its Name, please read the FAQ.

Loosing your inhibitions is very different from losing them. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE.

Ok. That's enough ratty me for this evening. Writing tomorrow.  plz muses?

Oh - and can you believe it? Someone on a yahoo group I belong to cracked the "don't drop the soap" in a discussion about gay age of sail.  *headdesk.

Comments

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

The reigns/reins thing always surprises me -- there's a G in regal and a g in the correct reiGns, so...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Good way to remember that!

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I actually do remember seeing one story where the villain was RAINING over everyone. (The writer knew that there was a difference between rain, rein and reign, but she kept getting them confused.)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That would make raining in a horse doubly weird.

[seraphim-grace.livejournal.com]

i love those kinda typos
they make my day - especially the ones that just snuck past the spellchecker

he tossed coins into the coiffure
or
the fire glowed merrily in the brassiere

snicker

but there was one in one of the harry potter books that broke my brain
it referred to Garry
I was looking for Harry's evil twin, I had a whole more interesting ending planned, and it was a typo,
I'll never forgive her that

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Garry Potter! *dies*

[shiawmeimei.livejournal.com]

No-one reins over anyone

Okay, my brain pictured someone in a leather harness with... Well, insert your own naughty image. *cackle*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well, yes... *smacks your naughty mind*

[jessewave.livejournal.com]

OK that was very funny. Are you saying that there are M/M authors who can't spell or don't know the difference between prostate and prostrate etc. etc.? How naughty of you.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Far far too many. They deserve to have their m/m badges torn off.

[kalitakasar.livejournal.com]

argh! lose and loose confusions drive me bananas too!
I generally just laugh whenever a character "reigns in his horse." The mental imagery!

*slinks away sniggering*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

King: "It's dark in here!"

[ggymeta.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Oh dear. >.>

You should f-lock this, once the wine wears off. ~just saying.

FWIW...LOLLERCAKES!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nah - one of them was from the BBC for goodness sake.

[kathleenbradean.livejournal.com]

Looking at the other typos, are you sure the author wasn't trying to say she was vary unique?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

:D
That one was actually from the television, someone talking about protons or quarks or something.

[marquesate.livejournal.com]

"prostate and prostrate"

HAHAHAHAHA!

That is all. Ahhthankye.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Tickle one's prostrate and it's really not going to have the same effect.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Those sort of things make me go ballistic. I freely admit to having a mental block in re draws/drawers but that's what betas/editors are for!

*heads desk as well*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'll have to be careful opening drawers in your house!

:)

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I've seen both those used for underwear in period terms--one would 'draw' them up.

Lovely image of Josh rifling Peter's drawers...

[zehavit-lamasu.livejournal.com]

Hahahah - I make those typos ALL THE TIME XD

Mind you - I don't publish and even I pay someone to fix them before I consider a chapter complete and worthy of public viewing...

Different story for LJ - there typos rule with a heavy hand (note how I cleverly avoided the whole rein/reign region ^^;;).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I just exploded reading my third prostrate this WEEK. Then someone on the BBC said "very unique" and my blood boiled.

[ggymeta.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

My favorite typo of yours Lamasu is England = Englad. It's like patriotism in l33t. ^_^

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

The lose/loose confusion is the one that gets me. I can't tell you how many stories I've read where the heroine speaks of "loosing a friend." Since that can be a correct usage, I always have to read very very carefully to see if the author means that she lost a friend or that she freed one.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Gah - tell me about it. Fanfic particularly is rife with it.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Lies prostately, *snort*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I am prostate at my loss!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Looser! LOL Actually, that advert with the kid shouting "Latht one in the theas a geat bit loother!" reeeeally annoys us. I could slap him silly. Just as well I don't have any sprogs, eh? Cats are far better company.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

This mis-spelling is making me mis-spell! Should have been 'great big'... *hides*

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I always eyeroll at that stuff. It just screams "I'm a lazy idiot with a spellchecker!"

I don't spellcheck at all, nor do I use a beta. I use my dictionary, and a couple of style guides when I need to, and being on my own means that the buck stops with me. Since I work without a net, I go over my own stories with intense paranoia, and it works quite well. Whenever an editor dings me for spelling I just cringe, but so far it's only been a max of once or twice per story, which IMO isn't bad. And going over my work myself multiple times means I catch a lot of other things too.

I just don't get folks who don't care how they're presenting themselves to readers. Even in blog posts it gives a negative impression, but writers looking for publication? O_O

Angie