Hey – I get the first post of 2011 – but that’s only because Ragnok the Disturber has kept me awake for 14 nights in a row…
You may be asking – what are the top ten writing mistakes I can make? And, if you’re not – you should be… Go on… ask yourself…
According to the all-knowing website, Get Paid To Write Online, here they are…
http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/common-writing-mistakes/
Do you agree? Disagree? Let us know via the comments thread…
Tommy
01/01/2011 at 10:36 am Permalink
Useful stuff. I particularly hate changes in tense. See it a lot in competition entries, as well as flipping from first to third person. And although LOL and BTW and all that stuff can be fun to use in up-to-the-minute stories (and for comedy effect) I try to remember that I’d like my books to be around, getting read, decades from now and this stuff reeeeeeally dates!
For the same reason it was a really tough call, in Frozen In Time, on whether to screw down the dates so thoroughly to 1956 and 2009, but the way the story went, I had to. It was all about past and present and the present day end couldn’t be left vague. In 2029 some kid might be reading it, muttering: ‘iPod? What’s an iPod?’
HAPPY NEW YEAR, CAVE DWELLERS!
06/01/2011 at 12:33 am Permalink
I’m just a blog writer not a book writer but I do agree with the list. Another is saying ‘I’ to much. I think it was my English teacher when I was about 6 drummed that in, she said there should never be to many, ‘I’s when writing something because you look self obsessed. It’s always stuck and I do find myself counting them even now. Though it’s a bit hard when it’s a personal blog about reviews and things you’ve made