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Originally Posted by iain6566
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.
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My view as an author is "get the grammar, spelling and punctuation right and THEN look at the content". Language is an author's toolbox. If you don't know how to use those tools correctly, it doesn't matter what you say; nobody's going to take any notice.