Climate Change (werewolf story)

[hexen]

First thing, YAY!
Now, disable the freaking auto-correction off of any writing software you use. You can leave warnings on and you may write some real messes but believe me, you'll improve greatly by not having a machine say what you should do.

Another thing, stories that you come with suddenly and you simply can't figure out why you are writing or what came over you but you are simply doing it, those stories are THE BEST you can EVER do, so don't shy away from them EVER! When inspiration hits you, may be in the middle of the night or while you are doing something others aren't advised to see just take whatever you can use and write the idea down, freaking nail that inspiration outbreak and you'll see, you'll be wielding that critter bazooka again faster than you can say "you are mean"!

[TF-Viewer]

Originally Posted by hexen

First thing, YAY!
Now, disable the freaking auto-correction off of any writing software you use. You can leave warnings on and you may write some real messes but believe me, you'll improve greatly by not having a machine say what you should do.

Well it doesn't automatically correct everything. It mostly highlights the parts I should double check and offers a suggestion. It let me know where I could use a semicolon properly, so I did (though possibly ironically I won't be using any of them correctly in this very post). It would point out sentence fragments that I later went back and added to, or subtracted if they weren't really helping. The only thing it automatically fixed was my constant misspelling of the word "restaurant" (which I misspelled here too before Firefox underlined the mistake). I keep leaving out the "a" before the "u". stupid letter A.

[sodacat]

Originally Posted by hexen

First thing, YAY!
Now, disable the freaking auto-correction off of any writing software you use. You can leave warnings on and you may write some real messes but believe me, you'll improve greatly by not having a machine say what you should do.

This is horrible advice.

If you're not willing to read what you wrote for errors, then why should anyone else read it for any reason?

[Obsidian Reaver]

Originally Posted by sodacat

This is horrible advice.

If you're not willing to read what you wrote for errors, then why should anyone else read it for any reason?

No, actually, it's not.

He never said don't proof-read your work. He's making the case that one should simply write and not worry about the countless mechanical errors that might be made in the process. Many authors get overwhelmed by the pressure, and stories that might have flowed freely end up getting hung up and halted by incessant nitpicking.

After the story is complete, then you may or may not go back and edit it. Or leave it as is if you're happy with it (even with a few mechanical flaws).

Writing is an art. If you don't like someone's art, don't look at it.

Similarly, don't call someone else's advice "horrible" unless you plan to contribute some of your own.

Now, my own advice to TF-Viewer is a bit of an echo of hexen's: Just write.

Earlier you mentioned that you honestly just wrote the story to have a woman in wet clothes undergoing a transformation. That's fantastic! Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Most of my own stories are just that: Transformation candy. Does that make me any less of a writer? Nope, and the same goes for you.

You don't have to write the best, most mechanically prestine stories with the most elaborate and well-conceived plot. You don't have to please the grammar police or story-snobs. As long as you enjoyed writing the story, then great. If a few others also enjoyed it, even better.

Write what you want, when you want, how ever you choose.

You can bet, at the very least, that I'll be reading and enjoying.

[Shadow_Dragon]

Originally Posted by Obsidian Reaver

After the story is complete, then you may or may not go back and edit it. Or leave it as is if you're happy with it (even with a few mechanical flaws).

Or you could just you know, ask someone to be your editor. But even then, proofreading your own work is crucial if you want to gain more credit as an aspiring writer. Too many grammatical errors can be a huge turn off if the plot itself has potential. I'm sure you know already TF-Viewer.

[hexen]

Originally Posted by sodacat

This is horrible advice.

If you're not willing to read what you wrote for errors, then why should anyone else read it for any reason?

I don't get it, I never said anything about not correcting anything I just suggested that you correct stuff yourself instead of having something automatically do it, don't know... think I'm old fashioned for that.

But so, Obsidian gets my point across better than I do, you just need to write stuff to be a writer and ANYTHING is game as long as you feel it, believe me you'll regret more for not having written than to have written with wrong typing/grammar.