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A couple of years ago I spent a lot of time on short stories, to try and refine my writing style and voice, and also to see if I could get work accepted for publication. I would submit these small masterpieces to writing forums for comment and constructive criticism. It was an eye opener on what people consider valid critique of a work. 90% of the reviewers would pick up on the missing apostrophe (I think you meant army's instead of armies, ho ho ho,) but very few would comment on the actual content.
On one of these forums, I read a short story, all in CAPS and with absolutely no punctuation whatsoever, but it was a stunning piece of writing. Next to it was a piece that had been edited to within an inch of it's life, and yet it was banal, dull and uninteresting.
It was one of the reasons I gave up the writers forums; I found that very few people actually wanted an honest review.
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