User blog comment:Banned In CP/Common Flaws in CP Writing/@comment-28266772-20180208170749/@comment-26475800-20180209022055

Banned, I agree with you on the proofreading aspect, and I’m also really guilty of that. If you go back and read some of my earlier stories you’ll find that there are a lot of mistakes, while my more recent stories don’t fall into those same pits. It takes a long time to learn how to proofread, and as someone who never wrote reports or did any homework in school, I didn’t have the proper training in that area. Over time I learned things to keep an eye out, mostly from people on here and Humboldt taking the time to help me with some others. In fact, if it wasn’t for this place and Humboldt, I wouldn’t be nearly as good of a writer I am.

As for the points of taking months, I’m a slow writer to begin with and when I edit, I like to put the story on the back burner for a while before I even look at it again. Then it normally takes about a month or two to really get into a polished enough place to show it to someone else.

Christian, you gave some real good advice. The biggest thing I see is that people on here don’t know how to build worlds or characters. They think that if they just put the idea to paper it will all work itself out. Granted, I have been gone for a long time and the stories on this site may have gotten loads better since I’ve left, but I’m going from what I’ve seen in the past.