Most Common Writing Errors ✔️

Stories I Won't Read

This chapter includes a list of stories I personally wouldn't read and why.

I figured since you're reading writing advice from me, you might as well actually know what I like and dislike in a story so you have a better understanding of what kind of author I am.

Read the disclaimer if you haven't already.

Content warning: Opinions

These are just my opinions, please don't take anything personally.

Here are a list of stories I won't read for entertainment (will explain why later):

- Stories that are lowercase intended

- Stories in first person (sorry-)

- Romanticization of certain topics (ab.se, grape, st.lking, etc.)

- Any story with cheating in it

- Smut books

- Any of the following tropes: billionaire, CEO, sugar daddy, cold lover, arranged marriage, accidental or secret baby (most people agree with this one tho), fake relationship, brother's best friend, step siblings, love triangles.

- Dialogue with too many tags that aren't 'said' or 'asked'

Things I personally don't like in stories, but I'll still read:

- Present tense

- Authors that use rom instead of Hangul (Korean)

- Stories with bad grammar

I will read these types of stories for contests/reviews/interviews and give them a fair judging regardless of my personal preference. But for books I read for entertainment? I'll skip them.

Okay, let's go through the list.

1) Lowercase Intended

Every author is entitled to write their story how they want, but why?

I get some people see lowercase intended as aesthetically pleasing, but it doesn't change how it isn't proper grammar.

If you see it as aesthetically pleasing, cool.

But I don't.

I see it as extremely hard to read and even dehumanizing in some cases. So many people purposefully lowercase names to dehumanize others. I know that's completely unrelated to someone writing in lowercase, but it just reminds me of that and it makes me feel icky.

Beyond that, it makes it harder to see where sentences start and end. when the sentences are like this, it's hard.

See what I mean? I just can't do it. It drives me insane. It also creates some confusion. Proper nouns are different from nouns. It's hard to think of examples off the top of my head, but let's talk about commanders.

In my novel, Like Crazy, Jimin is referred to as Commander. Capitalized. In lowercase intended, he would just be commander. Lowercase makes you think you're talking about commanders in general, not a specific one. With the capitalization, you know it's a specific, special commander. Imagine if Jimin was referred to as "commander park" instead of "Commander Park." It makes a difference, doesn't it?

So not only is it grammatically incorrect, but it can create confusion when you're talking about the differences between specific roles and general roles. See what I mean?