[Lemurion]

Originally Posted by NickSpalding

You know what, it amazes me how many people don't seem to do basic things like this in their writing.

I've read so much stuff from indie authors written in the passive voice, riddled with unneccesary adverbs and poor grammar that I want to tear my hair out.

There's some great ideas and stories floating about out there, but they're being badly, terribly and annoyingly ruined because writer's don't want to do the grunt work.

I know people like to ignore the grammar Nazis, but that type of thing really, truly and depressingly puts me off reading someone's work.

Thanks Nick - I know it gives me a screaming headache when I go through a story and everything's in passive voice and the author's weighed everything down with so many adverbs that the verbs are lost in the verbiage.

Sadly, I see all too many stories like that.

Not wanting to let someone else touch your work is one thing - but I really wish some of those writers who want to do everything themselves would actually sit down and do it.

I'm not going to take any novel or writer seriously unless it's been edited to professional standards. That doesn't mean it needs to be published through a commercial house; nor does it mean the author needed to employ, bribe or cajole someone to edit it; it does mean that someone (either the author or someone else) had to do the grunt work of editing the manuscript.

I don't care who does it, but someone has to.