The Red Pen

28/M/UK, aspiring writer and editor. Sporking and random internet stuff here.

The Red Pen @ LiveJournal: my main reviewing blog. Currently working on Hogwarts Too Exposed.
Readings @ YouTube: just My Immortal for now, others to come at an unspecified point in the future.
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  • I’ll get this right if it kills me.

    I’ll get this right if it kills me.

    • 1 year ago
    • 1 notes
    • #sentence diagram
    • #sentences are not minivans
    • #badfic
    • #mea culpa
  • “From there the conversation drifted off to  other topics and after a brief time Ginny offered some excuse as to why  she had to be leaving and after thanking them for their time she hurried  out the door.”
Thirty-eight words, no punctuation. Three FOUR betas missed this?

    “From there the conversation drifted off to other topics and after a brief time Ginny offered some excuse as to why she had to be leaving and after thanking them for their time she hurried out the door.”

    Thirty-eight words, no punctuation. Three FOUR betas missed this?

    • 1 year ago
    • #badfic
    • #copy editing
    • #hogwarts exposed
    • #run-on sentences
    • #sentences are not minivans
    • #sentence diagram
  • So you thought the last run-on sentence was bad?
Original text: “Laura helped me to face my problems and comprehend that I treated you the way I did because deep inside I had developed a [sic] abhorrence of women; [sic] in all probability because of the way my grandmother had treated me as a child.” Yes, that was supposed to be dialogue. Spoken by Neville Longbottom. *facepalm*

    So you thought the last run-on sentence was bad?

    Original text: “Laura helped me to face my problems and comprehend that I treated you the way I did because deep inside I had developed a [sic] abhorrence of women; [sic] in all probability because of the way my grandmother had treated me as a child.” Yes, that was supposed to be dialogue. Spoken by Neville Longbottom. *facepalm*

    • 1 year ago
    • 1 notes
    • #neville disapproves
    • #sentences are not minivans
    • #sentence diagram
    • #badfic
    • #hogwarts exposed
    • #copy editing
    • #watch your semicolons
    • #bad dialogue
    • #neville longbottom
    • #run-on sentences
  • Blame Reasoning with Vampires for this.
Original sentence: “Emily hesitated only momentarily before running to the bedroom she shared with Caitlin who was on her heels.” From the badfic Hogwarts Exposed.

    Blame Reasoning with Vampires for this.

    Original sentence: “Emily hesitated only momentarily before running to the bedroom she shared with Caitlin who was on her heels.” From the badfic Hogwarts Exposed.

    • 1 year ago
    • 1 notes
    • #badfic
    • #copy editing
    • #hogwarts exposed
    • #reasoning with vampires
    • #run-on sentences
    • #sentence diagram
    • #sentences are not minivans
    • #eldritch abomination in prose form
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