Not to me...I barely passed math. :)
Wash ,'Serenity'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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this was a no-holes barred type of experience, literary and figuratively.
I have no words for this...
But, you know, since she used the math metaphor earlier in the story (and I am stunned that these scenes are all from one story) I guess that's why she's using literary here now.
Oh my freaking lord.
Dana, it's cruel to make a seven-months-pregnant woman laugh so hard.
They were all beautifully atrocioius, but for sheer non-sequiturness I think the Florida Marlins reference wins my vote.
... So, Google isn't picking it up.
Can I have a link to this woman's website?
Sometimes I feel like the only person left who knows the difference between "reign" and "rein."
No. No, you're not. I practically give universal recs anytime I see it used correctly.
Can I have a link to this woman's website?
a) I wouldn't want to link to the site anyway, because of referrer logs, and
b) She doesn't have one. It's posted on a Nikita board.
I reserve my scorn for 'phase' and 'faze' substitutions.
Even for a horsey type, it's easy to type reign for rein, and then the freaking spellcheck doesn't catch it.
And, err, *ifyou'renotusingbetas* it can slip through.
Though I caught it the one time I typed it wrong, it was in a beta'd story, and it didn't slip through, I'm always worried that it will.
Being as I'm using betas less and less for shorter material. Which is an uncomfortable thing to admit to, but true.
Coastal, for example, I didn't send through a beta pass. I just re-read and tweaked with it a few days later, when I got home from L.A. I feel like I'm going to hell for this.
Past and passed is my particular red flag.
Honestly? I make more of those kinds of mistakes since I became an editor than I did before. Usually I catch them as I'm typing, but it really annoys me. Because in my mind, rein and reign or their and there and other homophones aren't (weren't) remotely the same word. When I started really editing other people's work, I had to school myself to think of them that way to make sure I caught any misuse. So now the association is there, and my fingers aren't always on the same wavelength with my brain.
But yeah, people use betas for a reason, and if they don't they should learn to check their work for things like this. I can forgive it once in a while, or in a quick drabble that someone throws up, but my patience is limited.