Comments on: My story goes too quick any tips? http://www.otr-site.com/old-time-radio-westerns/my-story-goes-too-quick-any-tips.html Old Radio Episodes Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: akaMaryn http://www.otr-site.com/old-time-radio-westerns/my-story-goes-too-quick-any-tips.html#comment-227 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:40:53 +0000 http://www.otr-site.com/old-time-radio-westerns/my-story-goes-too-quick-any-tips.html#comment-227 Nope. I can’t and won’t ‘never mind the typos,’ because they’re distracting. People serious about writing would be ashamed to present work they know is full of obvious, easily-fixed mistakes. Any place your writing appears is your shop window, and right now, yours is displaying broken goods.

If you want the help of people who know what they’re doing, don’t present them with anything less than the best you can do without their help. If you haven’t given your best effort, why should I give any effort?

I recommend you correct this to contain no typos, no spelling mistakes, and no grammatical errors. (I don’t think much of any grammar check program, but I see mistakes even those would have caught.) I will be glad to help you determine why it’s running short and what you can do to change that, if you’ll do your work to clean this up–and I know my stuff.

Edit: OMG, a positive attitude. [Maryn faints.] I hope I’ll see you at a writing site I visit several times a day, where people far more skilled than I will also help you. It’s

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