Something from the NML

[dramaturgy]

To: newsies@yahoogroups.com
From: snowqueen9901@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:13:07 EDT
Subject: [Newsies] ch. 1 of my new ff "god save my son"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, here it is. after u read it please please give me some feedback!!!!!

title: god save my son
author:operetta
rating: i dunno, g so far but i'm not sure where it's goin'
summary: well, it's about patrick (yea, patrick, ya kno: patrick, darling, since you left me i've been alone, mother loves you.............) and his mother's search for him. it also involves snipeshooter.
disclaimer: i don' own newsies, disney does. duh.

oh, and i apolojize for writing in all lower cases. it's jus' how i type. srry if it bugs u. i'll write in all caps next time. lol. jk.

No! Just...no! If you are going to make no attempt to use proper capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling, I am not, repeat, NOT going to exert the effort it takes to press the mouse button and scroll down the e-mail containing your story. It takes all of two minutes to use your spell check. Typos and mix ups like 'there' and 'their', I can stand, we are only human after all, but for JESUS CHRIST'S SAKE people. You can have the most fascinating plot on the face of the earth, but it won't matter if people can't read your bleeding story!

I have no more words to describe how incredibly disgusted and insulted I am. Ugh. I need a shower.

Comments

[fede.livejournal.com]

And usually they complain about their feedback for it's few...

Or if it's on FF.net it'll get more then the stories that are written correctly. -_-

[lavender-ice.livejournal.com]

*gapes in horror* Oh dear God. That is terrible. What's with all the netspeak lately? I've yelled at two people already today (within half an hour), and it's driving me crazy... er. Right.

*pokes needles into netspeak voodoo doll*

[lifesend.livejournal.com]

*nods in agreement* netspeak makes me crazy. I read somewhere someone said if you don't care to check your fanfic for spelling and grammer errors, you probably don't care enough about your fanfic. If I read a ff with too many netspeak in the first couple paragraphs, I usually don't continue.
Added you to my friends list Liz! Thank you so much for the code!

[clumsytraveller.livejournal.com]

you are a lot more forgiving than I am. I can't stand it when people mess up you're and your or their, there and they're. mostly the contractions vs. the other spellings because it isn't that hard to figure those ones out. I know that my spelling is far from perfect but grammer, not including punctuation, is something that i think if you are a native English speaker, you need to learn.

~Shamrock

Mep.

[twelveeyes.livejournal.com]

Oh, evil person.

Ack.

[elizzy.livejournal.com]

Arg. I can understand your frustration; this is the kind of thing that makes me yell at my monitor.

This is Lizzy (tinydancer at the Park), just to clarify.
*takes off "Hi, I'm an Anonymous Loser" sign from around her neck*

Would you mind terribly if I added you to my friends list?

Re: Ack.

[dramaturgy.livejournal.com]

Ohh I was wondering who you are! :D

Yeah, please do add me!

[duchessdollydot.livejournal.com]

LOL. That's... hilarious... my gosh...

And oh, that's so sad. Absolutely horrible. No wonder the law is that you have to be thirteen and older to post-- if we've got overage people writing fics like that, imagine what the younger ones could do. Oh, the humanity...

*trisha*