But surely that should be a cue to give it more editorial attention? Or any?
I don't think those get edited at all, to be honest. I think they go up as a verbatim post that was also up somewhere else on the web. It's a thing they do, reuse other content.
That piece is HORRENDOUSLY incorrect. And I don't think it has a good enough point that I'd post it anyway, if the house rule were what I thought it was. But I read just about every IO9 article, and they're usually grammatically correct with good spelling.
It's not just grammar & spelling, but if they're usually correct at that level, I've had extraordinarily bad luck.
I just grabbed that movie review by their senior reporter and popped it into Word, which found 6 punctuation/grammar errors (ignoring the usual false positives). I'd say there are at least another half-dozen style problems, ranging from a grammar issue that Word didn't catch to stuff like:
(there's no daylight to indicate time or clocks).
...Because daylight is such a great indicator of clocks?
And then the fact that she can't pick a POV. It's ugly writing and I can't see past it. (I'm not saying other people should react this way, but man, it really bugs me. Obviously.)
These are supposedly from actual books, which I guess they must be (I am envisioning the slush pile) because you couldn't make some of this shit up: [link]
eep! Stuff like this is why I never end up submitting anything I've written. What if I don't realize how much I suck?
What if I don't realize how much I suck?
You gotta getta beta, baby.
George RR Martin's publisher shows off the massive manuscrupt of A Dance with Dragons (so far).
I wrote a Kos post that I think belongs here...if you're ever on DK, the new Readers and Book Lovers group might be worth Buffistas' time.
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IO9 has an interview with John Norman. I didn't read it, because I can't separate the text from the author and I don't care to, because the text is stinky. But I thought it might interest some here.
Norman is such a weird flashing of a kinky sensibility in a somewhat mainstream context.
You could go into a B. Dalton books at your local mall and get all the B&D you'd ever want.
I've got no issue with B&D in instances. As an assertion that that's the way the world works, and there are ingrained gender roles in it? Fuck that noise. Not interested.
