Yes! Someone who gives good advice!

Thanks for the 'story', though I must admit I do overuse exclamation marks... and periods... Hehe...

Anyway, it's a useful guide, thank you! I'm sure it will come in handy if I ever recheck my work.

I check as I'm writing, but it never hurts to do as suggested.

Good luck with your stories!

You just made my frickin day.

I ABHOR half the stories on this site because of all that you listed. Especially the your v.s you're thing. I mean, come ON - how hard is it to differentiate between the two?

I seriously love you for writing this!

- Sherry

Awesome! I don't understand what happened to this site. I've been on here since 2004 and used to love reading the stories. Now I have to go through 20 pages before I find a decent, ORIGINAL story. All the good ones were taken down due to plagiarism. Argh teeny boppers ruin everything. And if I see one more freaking Twilightish story I'll vomit. I don't even look in the supernatural section anymore.

THANK YOU!

This made me laugh. I'm sure I've done some of those things, too, but I still laughed. I really think more people should read this! It bugs the crap out of me when I find something here on FictionPress with a good story-line but horrible grammar, overused adjectives, and so on.

Finally someone is willing to get straight to the point about this stuff.

Love this! Thanks for this much needed guide to write a better romance fiction. People who exemplify these mistakes really do irritate me. This is so helpful, not only in educating readers on important elements of a good fiction, but also in shedding light on mistakes that I sometimes make. Thanks a bunch! And I will check out your collection of favorite stories. Knowing that you'll only fav the stories sans grammar errors is a comforting thought. And you seem like you have high expectations and good taste.

Great guide here. I'm sure many authors have learned from this.

oh, i'm so happy you wrote this (and sorry i am not capitalizing my 'i'). i thought i might be going a little crazy when i saw what kind of writing was winning prizes at SKOW, but at least you seem to have noticed as well.

but in the end, this is a place largely for the writing by fourteen-year-olds, for fourteen-year-olds.. and i hope your words impress upon them all your good points.

Wow...I LOVE IT! I do believe I myself have gone through every single problem in one story or other. A great read!

I nearly choked because of how hard I was laughing when reading this. Finally SOMEONE says it. I think reading this should be required before anyone is allowed to put up a story, because some of the stories I see on here are identical to the things you're saying not to do, and I want to cry every time I see something like your example,

Im not going to lie, he looked pretty stupid. He was drenched from head to toe in mud, wearing a stupid grin. I didnt want to be mean, but i didnt want to let him think it was okay to look so stupid!

"Greg, u look stupid!" i said, unable to control myself, bursting into a fit of laughter. it was hard not to laugh at him, cuz he was so stupid looking!

If I could facebook "like" this story I would. Since I can't, I am telling you that this provided me great amusement and for that I owe you a million thanks, especially since this needed to be done. Kisses!

I love you.

This is so true. You have basically summed up everything that I try to avoid in stories these days. This is brilliant. I am not worthy to be in your presence haha :)

I liked this.

You speak so much truth here. Thank you, many times over.

Goodness every thing you covered makes me feel a little less alone. I hate those errors that people make. I don't think I can thank you enough for writing this down.

Thank you so much! I absolutely hate when I see these things on FP. I think the quality of the stories here are kind of detereorating. I can forgive a few small mistakes in each chapter in a story, but it's usually not just a few. I don't completely agree with everything you say here, but you are still definitely awesome. And Exhibit G is my favorite. If I see any grammar, punctuation, spelling, or capitalization mistakes, or chat speak in a summary (or a title in rare cases), I will not read the story, no matter how small the mistake is. I just skip over it.

Also, just to rant a bit(because I am a nerd), I absolutely hate it when I see spelling mistakes in a story. I'm not the best speller (in fact, I'm pretty bad), but Spell Check is such an easy tool to use! I mean, I assume most people have it RIGHT THERE in their tool box! Personally, I use it about every ten paragraphs when I'm writing something.

And I must say, THANK GOD for Spell Check!

Sorry for any spelling mistakes in this, after my rant about spelling.I don't have Spell Check. /