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Carter-Orange:
It's always Nick's fault...at least it is in my stories, lol

mare:
mine too! lol

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: hachi08 on January 15, 2011, 03:48:04 PM ---@Steph & Mare:
I'm so jealous that you guys can delete your writing!  One of my big problems is that once I think of a passage, I hate to delete it.  A lot of the time, I'll copy-paste it to the very bottom of the word document to save it for later >_<  That's how I am in real life too, a total pack rat who hates to throw anything away.

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I am the same way!  I can only delete once I finish the chapter and know I'm not going to use those passages, and even then, if I still like them, I put them into my outline in case I can use them later in the story somewhere.

I write really slowly because I am constantly revising and editing as I go, but once it's written, I don't like to revise more than just a few minor tweaks and proofreading.

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: mare on January 15, 2011, 04:32:43 PM ---I totally get the English isn't your first language dilemma. I give you and everyone else a lot of credit for writing in a language other than your first. I used to help beta for a few people who needed help with the english and what I always told them was it doesn't matter about any of that. If you have a great story and believeable characters, no one will care about the small mistakes they may find throughout due to the language barrier. I can usually tell when someone is writing not in their own tongue and very rarely will that detract me from reading it if it's a good story.

Mersey, Maria and Swenglish (going back awhile for Swenglish lol) are three great examples of that.

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I totally agree with this!  I may be a Grammar Nazi, but that's only targeted at people who have spoken English their whole lives and gone through 12-ish years of school in English and STILL don't know or care how to write coherently in the language.  I can overlook the minor mistakes you find in a story written by someone who has learned English as a second or third language.

One of my favorite series, Swollen Issues, was co-written by Swenglish, and even though I could usually tell which parts were written by her because the wording was sometimes awkward, it never detracted from my love of those stories.  Like Mare said, if the plot and characters and everything else is there, the little mistakes don't matter.

Carter-Orange:
Once I've written the chapter, I go over it and maybe add/delete things, check for spelling (but no doubt some typos still get through occasionally) and then post it.  If I do delete something like a whole chapter, I'll take the bits I was happy with and keep them at the bottom of the page, and also any other ideas that pop into my head which may fit into the story somewhere.

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