Quote Originally Posted by Timberwolf
But c'mon, to get anal over a misuse of they're their or there on a free story site is just plain silly. It's nice when people always get it right, but slip ups are going to happen. Professional authors make use of profesiional editors for a reason. To expect that level of commitment from people who are writing for nothing in their spare time, on a site that's first goal is to get you horny and second goal is to tell a decent story (let's be frank, that *is* what the vast majority of the writing in the library is about, for better or worse) is almost off the charts funny to me.
Sorry, Timberwolf. Your post slipped in while I was writing my last -- I certainly agree with you in principle ... it's not about minor errors, is it? Yet, I could easily disagree with your example ... I would notice a screw up in homonyms like their/they're/there (though I readily admit many folk wouldn't), or than/then, or to/two/too, and lots of other examples.

At the same time, I surely wouldn't lower my appreciation (or scoring) of a story just because the author misses an occasional word or two.

The question here has become:

if you want the reader aroused, if you want them to cum while they read your very horny porn, then do you really want them to be distracted by a slip up you can easily catch?

Another suggestion then, since sbbe liked the one about reading backwards -- if you know you typically goof up a specific homonym or usage, it doesn't take very long, does it, to run a search/replace for the word and decide if you've used it correctly? (I have to do that for several words I can never recall how to spell -- "achievement" is one, "judgment" is another -- did I get them right? lol)

The point is, if you write a lot, you know your weak spots ... not hard nor time-consuming to look for them.

hJ