muggle said:
naw, I don't believe that. I see that you are reading Edward Rutherfurd so I, for one, think that you have good taste.
My taste has nothing to do with my mood. They're two very different and completely seperate things. I study literature - I can usually seperate good from bad, but from there to also magically be in a good mood... ehm, dunoo how you imagine that would happen. Not that it matters.
Anyways, to stay on topic. I feel an irrepressible need to berate one of the newer members of the forum I admin. Instead of posting on the forum he simply PMed me, and I have never seen so many spelling errors in three lines of text. He was apparently writing a story he wanted to get published and wanted to ask if I would proof-read for him. I asked him what made him ask me and who the devil he is anyway. He apparently attends university at Richmond, I think he said, and he said it seemed like I had some talent - yes, that is his wording - as if he'd be able to judge.
He attends university and cannot spell write. In his words he's trying to wright a story. Well good luck with that, bub, you're gonna need it
Anyways, it's this story about the child of two characters from a published author's books. There are many things wrong with that, here's a few: 1. Those two characters do not have a child. 2. Both are copy-righted characters, which I've pointed out to him several times now, but he ignores it. 3. He can't spell to save his life. 4. One of the copy-righted characters is even grossly Out Of Character.
I said to him I'd like to see a sample of his writing before I said yes to anything. So he sent me a sample. An unedited one, that is. I told him off for wasting my time with stuff he himself has not taken the time to edit yet, but I did go over the story, and it was utter crap, which I told him. He has yet to take my pointers seriously, I think. He says he's getting it published with some friends, which leads me to think that those friends are so bad a Vanity Publisher that they haven't even told him to lay off copy-righted material.
It's a shame I'm not allowed to ban people for being stupid. What I *will* do though is keep an eye on all the names he gave me and if anything happens in the way of publishing a book I *will* be notifying the copy-right holders. Simply because it'd be so satisfying to see him learn his lesson.
I never berate newbies at a forum, I only berate people if they behave like morons - like for instance the dude from the above little story. My toes are still curled up because of the absolute horrid writings he sent me. I don't think I've ever read anything as dreadful lol
