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[MrEmann]

So is this forum still active? How does one gain access to Level One and work up from there? If the forum is no longer active, then why does it still show up, and accept new posts?


Any help here at all?

[Ozme52]

It's a volunteer site. The activity levels, right now, of the whole forum seems to have waned.

I'd offer, but in addition to being a fair critiquer, I'm a grammar nazi and have been told, elsewhere, that spelling and word usage isn't important, so I don't volunteer anymore.

I just can't abide sentences like "His eyes where a pail steal blew..."

Keep the faith. Forum activity has both waxed and waned before. I'm sure it will spike up again soon.

[Snark]

Spelling and word usage ISN'T IMPORTANT???? WTF? Damn, Wiz. I appreciate the fact that you obviously disagree with that statement. I can't comprehend how anyone who is actually literate could even think that, much less write it. Here's a concept that will blow their minds: WORDS MEAN THINGS! And using the wrong word will give the WRONG MEANING! OHHH...but they meant well...never mind? There have been some exceptional writers show up in the Library in the last year or so. Their work has caused me to re-consider the ratings that I use when reviewing a story...as well as re-examining my own work. I believe that it makes my work better (okay, just my opinion) but I KNOW that it makes the work harder. While my stories don't get many reviews, they have been good ones. And the stories do get a fair number of readers, so someone is entertained enough to come back and read the updates. An occasional typo is one thing, but when the story obviously either hasn't been proofread even once, or the author is so ignorant as to not know which homophone is wrong, my ratings drop like a stone. Or I won't review it at all.

[MrEmann]

I too am a "grammar nazi" The one thing, well one of the things I cannot abide is the incorrect use of to,too, and two...Or worse using 2 to cover all your bases...I'd never mistake "pail steal blew" for "pale steel blue" either. I could appreciate critique like that. I even enjoy, or at least learn from having my typos pointed out. IF a character where to use incorrect grammar, I'd let my editor, or proofreader know up front...Though I cannot think of a context where a character's incorrect usage of grammar would come out in the narrator's spelling...Unless say a guy came in and filled out a job application, that was just full of inaccuracies. That would be an exception. Not the rule.

Thank you for your input however.

I know there are other writing forums out there. I just don't want to expose all of my ideas to people I do not know.