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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
If the story is only so-so, these will kill it for me, of course, but I think there's a vast overestimation of the importance of these points. If the story is good, most people, I find, will put up with an awful lot of bad spelling, grammar etc. Of course they'll comment, but the story will hold them. That's why you picked it up after all.
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I agree, and if you read my first book you could find some typos that were not spotted to after release. My editor (aka my wife) is still upset about them. She thinks she will get it prefect... and probably puts double the hours in editing that I put in writing the silly thing.
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Well, there's a lot of difference between long drawn out and eight words! I can take a bit of titillation, but I agree, too long, and you're reading porn. Mine are usually a (longish) paragraph. And not too many of them in a book.
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True, but its easier to show a point with extremes then it is with gray areas. I personally go with 1 or 2 sentences tops... I have finished books with to much in them, for example the Dark Fever series. I read the first book, good writing, wonderful story... but the primary character kept having to deal with a "death by sex" fae. Really? You could not come up with a better villain then that? I finished the first book, and left the series.