Some Common Errors in Writing

[curious_guy (imported)]

I have noticed writers here using were instead of where and the reverse.

This is correct:

We were going to the lake but didn't know where it was so we got lost.

This is wrong:

We where going to the lake but didn't know were it was so we got lost.

I have also noticed writers here using hid instead of hide.

This is correct:

I wanted to hide so I hid behind the sofa.

[bobover3 (imported)]

I've noticed what I believe to be a new error, now become common, and appearing in the most respected publications: always using the preposition "for" with "advocate," even when advocate is being used as a verb. For example, it's correct to write "I'm an advocate for good grammar," but an annoying error to write "I advocate for good grammar." I'd never seen this until a few months ago, but now I see it everywhere, including the New York Times. It leaves me in an elitist's tizzy every time.

[calmeilles (imported)]

I wouldn't use for in any case. I'm an advocate of good grammar.

[Ringer (why >= 8?) (imported)]

My particular hate is the incorrect use of "of" following another preposition, as in "take your feet off of the table". Who would dream of saying "Put the plate on of the table"?

"outside of", "behind of" are other common blunders.

[bobover3 (imported)]

Point well taken, Calmeilles.

[tjstill (imported)]

Change we need ?

Laughing I am

Slogans by Yoda?

[Classy Bitch (imported)]

I need help with a story I've been working on. At first I wanted it to be a political parody, but now I think we've had quite enough of all that. The woman I was joking on is also someone I think was treated unfairly by the mainstream press. She does not need me to try my own lame jokes. I will describe the story below, hoping for some pre-submission feedback so I can make it better. I tried looking at the formatting on the preview function on the submit page and I think I have the formatting OK now but I still need help with the flow, with the proper tags, and to make sure it is a generic and not a story with any political overtones. I thank you in a advance for your helpful feedback to make it better.

Story Title: Fucks Unlimited

Sub-Title: A lesbian Icelandic huntress captures special game for her special games.

Type Tag: S for Straight (one woman, one man)

Action Tags: Testicles, Penectomy

Beta Story I want everyone's help on:

A lesbian Iceland huntress captures special game for her special games.

Both of Jessica’s 12-gage barrels were locked on both of Jared’s balls.

He froze.

For two reasons.

One, fear.

Two, caught taking a piss, his pants were down to his ankles on the Greenland ice sheet, and his gonads were being freeze-dried in the open-air breeze of minus 40 degrees.

Jessica always hunts bare-breasted. Her nipple erections are magnetic – they always point North – so she never loses her way.

The eroticism of the moment had Jared’s cock up and pointing South.

Jessica kept one hand on the trigger and reached over with the other and snapped off Jared’s rigid cock.

No harm done to him. The super-cooled wound never bled.

His balls were now blue. She blew him a kiss as she let the buckshot kick.

The shot was cleverly of blanks. Just nice hot wads fired on his gonads, warming them nicely and nice enough to excite him to shoot a wad through the remains of his phallic stump.

She took the rock-hard captured cock to her taxidermist friend for preservation and to make a never-failing real-life perma-frost strap-on.

The future fucks with her GF would now be unlimited and tingly chilling. The trophy lez wives would now have a frozen-solid trophy cock to fuck and fuck, to suck and suck, and with no man needed to change their luck.

[Kortpeel (imported)]

Jessica kept one hand on the trigger and reached over with the other and snapped off Jared’s rigid cock.

No harm done to him. The super-cooled wound never bled.

His balls were now blue. She blew him a kiss as she let the buckshot kick.

Classy B.,

As far as I can tell your story is fine. Jessica is too far removed from any real person for that to be a problem. Make sure your main protagonist is a real enough person for readers to identify with and you'll have a fine story.

You just pipped me though. I've been working on a story where a guy lost his nuts when a cup of liquid nitrogen was brought up to them and after a few seconds of immersion a tap with an iron bar shattered his scrotum and its contents into a million tiny fragments. "You'd better get to a doctor," Cynthia told him kindly. "You might bleed to death when it thaws out."

Oh well, now I have to think of something else.

Good luck with your story. I look forward to reading it.

Kortpeel

[Classy Bitch (imported)]

Classy B.,

As far as I can tell your story is fine. Jessica is too far removed from any real person for that not to be a problem. Make sure your main protagonist is a real enough person for readers to identify with and you'll have a fine story.

You just pipped me though. I've been working on a story where a guy lost his nuts when a cup of liquid nitrogen was brought up to them and after a few seconds of immersion a tap with an iron bar shattered his scrotum and its contents into a million tiny fragments. "You'd better get to a doctor," Cynthia told him kindly. "You might bleed to death when it thaws out."

Oh well, now I have to think of something else.

Good luck with your story. I look forward to reading it.

Kortpeel

Kortpeel,

Many thanks.

I don't exactly know what it means to be "pipped." I hope you will do your story too. I like the liquid Nitrogen idea. Maybe my "Jessica" can blast your wounded character for an instant shotgun cauterization.

Be kind of interesting to do a progressive story together sometime. Probably take a lot of interesting twists and turns. "Twists and Turns," hmm, maybe a good story title there.

Best regards,

- CB

[Kortpeel (imported)]

Kortpeel,

Many thanks.

I don't exactly know what it means to be "pipped."

To be pipped is to be just beaten. It comes from horse racing when a horse that has led for most of the race is beaten by a horse passing it at the last moment, just before the winning post. Hence the second horse home was "pipped at the post."

What "pipped" has to with it I don't know but obviously the alliteration made it catch on.

Hence in this case you just beat me in regard to using the idea of brittleness of deep frozen tissue in a story.

Two nations separated by a common language!

Kortpeel