Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-33077235-20180922002654/@comment-36627132-20180925035154

DrBobSmith wrote: Simon Slaughters,

At a certain point of no visible change, people stop looking. If people take the time to point out that you still have errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, structure, formatting or composition, you need to fix those with highest priority. Nobody will read a story they can't read.

There are some really good writers here. (I am not counting myself among them, I mean REALLY good.) When they take the time to review your work, you should seriously consider that they are correct with their evaluation. When two or three say the same thing, they almost certainly are right. You need to get those issues fixed, even if it means a stem to stern rewrite.

You need to learn how to edit mercilessly. If it doesn't drive the story forward, you don't need it.

Dr. Bob Agreed!

I think one of the biggest problems (if not the biggest) was that he ignored criticism most of the time. We had to tell him multiple times to fix certain things (the horrible paragraph spacing for one, which he didn't even do by himself!) before he actually did.

Another problem is that nobody, not a single person, said that it looked ready to be posted. On his first message in this page's comment section he says he wants to know where the problems with this story is, even though I reviewed it in the previous thread he made for it (I reviewed it again because I was bored). In his latest post on this thread he seemed discouraged and angry over the fact that I said it still had issues.