Subject: I agree...
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Posted on: 2011-11-14 21:39:00 UTC

I just hope that we can make sure that everybody knows that the point is to help each other write better--that we wouldn't be doing concrit if we didn't think there was a good deal of potential there.

I'm mostly a grammar fiend--one of those people who instinctively reaches for a red pen at the slightest hint of apostrophe misuse. I find lots of little typos and grammatical glitches that even a beta sometimes misses. Heck, I find them in published works all the time. Would people mind if I started posting those, or e-mailing them to the mission's author?

Still--I'm always a tiny bit scared that the person who is writing won't understand that I'm pointing stuff out because I want to make a great story better, not because I want to make the writer feel bad. That's kind of what attracted me to the PPC in the first place, actually; I liked the concept of going in there and fixing all the bad stories out there. When I was a fourteen-year-old into Animorphs, I used to save other people's fanfiction to a floppy disk at the library, and then go home and edit and re-write it so that it made sense and flowed better. I never told the authors because I was too shy... Ah, the memories!

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