Vindictive? You wish I considered that vindictive.

I would love to tell you the climax of the story right now, but I'll start from the beginning.

Once upon a time, someone wrote a fanfiction called...

Wait. I can't tell you that. Sorry. Anonimity is necessary.

Anyway, "once upon a time" is actually a few years ago. And the fanfiction that was written was reviewed by me.

Don't get me wrong. By review, I meant con-crit. I do not mean flame. I cannot flame due to my lack of ability to be mean, unless the person really deserves it, for example of a reason why, hurt one of my friends.

But this person tells me I was vindictive. And he also tells me that he didn't read any of it. This is rather interesting, because he claims that I was vindictive, but also claims that he did not read it, which means he's lying about not reading it. He also said he was not amused. I am not either.

I wrote him reviews, telling him about his grammatical errors in detail. I'm very sure that was not vindictive. (If I considered those reviews to be vindictive, I would have to be the nicest person in the world or an angel.)

There were TWENTY OR MORE spelling and grammatical errors in so few chapters (not even more than five). And when asked why, he made excuses about a crappy keyboard, and also, about it being written a while ago. He also spent disgracefully short amounts of time on it, (less than 20 minutes) and wrote it on notepad.

If a person wants to do something, they do it properly. You do not, and i repeat, DO NOT, rush a piece of writing out in anything less than an hour when you have the adequate leisure time to do so slowly. There is a reason why composition examinations are usually at least an hour long. And this is it: in order to submit a decent piece of work, at least an hour is needed to craft it. Since the teachers prefer not marking anything other than decent work, they give you an hour to write it in order to save themselves the suffering of reading an essay that shows that its author lacks proper foundations in grammar and spelling.

For fanfiction, the one-hour rule applies even more. You have no time limit, and neither is it a race to see who can finish writing first. In addition, you have the benefit of a spell-checker, and perhaps, a beta-reader to read your piece of work and comment on it.

I cannot see why people cannot bear to spend the time to do their ideas justice. I have seen too many fanfiction where the ideas are revolutionary, but the work is filled with grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, and thus, ruining what could have been a perfectly good fanfiction. If they are writing about an idea or belief, and they are passionate about what they are writing about, they should spend the time to make a proper piece of writing that expresses said belief or idea.

I cannot understand the people who write, but end up with pieces of work that are riddled with errors. If they don't want to put in effort, why do they even write? Why do they bother to write, when they can't be bothered about clicking a few buttons here and there to check their work for spelling errors? Why do they bother to publish their work when they can't be bothered to scroll down for a bit and read through what they've written to check for grammatical errors?

I just can't understand.

Obviously, this is another one of those mysteries of life that I will never understand. If one of you reading this know the answer, do tell me.

I'd love to know why.

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