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Neb92's Pre-Posting Checklist


Hey ya'll! Alright, this is a works-in-progress. These are just some of the things I generally do before I post a story, and they help make it read so much more smoothly. Hope that you guys stick with me while I work this out!



1. Spellcheck!! Spellcheck, spellcheck, spellcheck!!! I cannot tell you enough that you have to spellcheck. Take this for example:

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Chirs and Wyatt walkde down the stret talkng about there dayly lives.

"Chris, yu cant keep doing this to yurself!" Wytt yelled, "You need to keepe your grades up!


Okay, I know this is a sucky example, but it works. It's extremely hard to read, and you wanted to stop, didn't you? Now try this.

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Chris and Wyatt walked down the street talking about their daily lives.

"Chris, you can't keep doing this to yourself!" Wyatt yelled, "You need to keep your grades up!


See how much better that is? Remember that Spellchecking is an extremely important part of writing. If your readers can't understand what they are reading, they won't want to read it.

2. A pet peeve of my English teacher's is misplaced modifiers. And after she lectured us on those for an hour, I realized how much that would help with my fan fiction. Take this for example:

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Chris strode confidently down the halls of the high school, hiding many secrets behind a happy exterior


Now, I'm going to tell you that most people will automatically understand that you are talking about Chris hiding his secrets, but what you're really saying is that Chris is walking down the school halls, which hide a ton of secrets behind the happy exterior the school gives off. That's not what you were trying to say, is it?

This is how it should have been written:

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Chris, hiding many secrets behind a happy exterior, strode confidently down the halls of the high school


Got it? Good. We all make mistakes sometimes, and I'm no exception to that rule, but I will take you down for this if I see it. Bad grammar is not an excuse here. If you really suck at grammar, find a beta. Plenty of people would love to beta a good story.

3. More coming soon! I just need to think of more rules, but this is just a glimpse of some of the bad things people do when they write fan fiction.

Neb
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