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Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️'s avatar

See, this is why contemporary litfic eats ass. Their pointless gatekeeper "rules" are an attempt to strip all meaning and color from fiction writing, and we are all intellectually poorer for this literary burglary.

No adverbs because words that end in -ly are ugly. No words that end in -ing because they are annoying. Can't use the word 'said' to describe what was said, and can't use the word the because the the the the the the.

20% of my editing should NOT be deciding whether to OFFEND people with an Oxford comma!!!

Fuck, man. People get so caught up on words. It's almost like they hold the magic power to change people's hearts and minds. Wonder why someone would be afraid of that.

Thanks, Thaddeus, for standing up for language, and the beauty of ALL the words and their various suffix choices.

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Leeron Heywood's avatar

Thank you so much for breaking these concepts down and making them accessible - not only the material itself (which I wish I’d had years ago!) but your decision to offer “scholarship” subscriptions.

If I manage to monetise my writing, buying a subscription to your Stack is my first earning goal. 😄

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