Just a little help

[Gail Holmes]

It is with hope that I can get some feedback from fellow authors. So far everything I have submitted to Literotica has passed and been published on site. My readers have told me that they love my style. Ok, I have also had feedback about my grammar now I have a reader who is very versed in grammar, which I admire very much, although living in a foreign country, perhaps foreign is not the proper word. All my work is now sent to my good friend, whom is very harsh in corrections, sending back page, paragraph, line and problem, assuring that I myself correct it. I know I am learning by their methods, thank you “Elbee “

But can I get feed back from my fellow authors, I don’t intent to change my style as that is the way I estimate a sequence should take place, I don’t believe that everybody jumps into bed at the snap of a finger. I am sure others authors do write in the sequence as I do

 

[Alex De Kok]

Probably the wrong forum -

- you really ought to be posting this in the Story Feedback forum. There's an intro sticky there from Laurel, right at the top, headed 'Writers - Please Read', which will give you some pointers. The one thing you must do is post a link to your stories because most of us are too lazy to go looking.

As a fellow UK author I got your link for you, just tell everyone to look here for your work.

Alex

 

[KillerMuffin]

Grammar and style aren't mutually inclusive.

It is possible to write with good grammar and not affect your style at all. Don't make the begginer mistake of confusing style with grammar. Just because your style is in vernacular doesn't mean that you can ignore grammar rules. Believe it or not, there is a happy median. You should also take into account the international nature of your audience. Less than half of the people who read you come from your country.

Grammar exists for one reason--no, not to torment writers--and that's to provide a set of conventions so that the communication between writer and reader is clear.

We've been conditioned to accept good grammar as the best means of writing a story, this is not a bad thing, so that we feel funny when we read something where the rules are broken.

Does this mean that grammar rules can't be broken? Absolutely not. However, you should understand that when you break the rules and you don't have the talent for it, people are going to notice you bad grammar before they notice the story itself. You just can't transcend that which you do not know.

All this having been said, I haven't read a story. Read mine, I'll read yours.