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 "I Don't Read"  [E]
On the importance of reading.
by Voxxylady
Review of "I Don't Read"  
Review by Angus
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Rated: E | (5.0)
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Hello there, Voxxylady!
I'm reviewing this as an "The WDC Angel Army"  Angel and to thank you for all the reviews you've done on this site! You rock!
This is an excellent article about people who claim to be writers but don't read, and I couldn't have said it any better!
You've made some great points here, especially that third one. Anybody who says they're an author but doesn't read doesn't even know what it means to be a writer, let alone what a writer really is!
The first time I saw that statement was here on WdC, and needless to say they weren't lying. Their story was full of speech tag mistakes (putting periods outside of quotation marks, using periods when they should have used a comma, as in "...I tried." he said...' or capitalizing the pronoun of the speaker: "...I tried," He said...'
Speech tags are one of the main things I find myself correcting on these 'authors', and yet when I tell them what they're doing wrong, I'll read their very next story and they'll be doing the same dang thing!
I've even gone so far as to provide a short article about speech tags from the internet to help them along:

https://writersbeat.com/speech-tags-t16297.html

But I don't think they even look at it!
Aaaarrrrgghh!
And like you, I won't waste my time reading them either!
Misspellings are one thing, although I don't see why they just can't look up something in the dictionary if they're not sure of a word.
And getting ideas and being influenced from other people? Some of my best stories (in my own humble opinion, of course! *Bigsmile*) have been inspired by a lot of great authors, and even some not-so-great authors!
Anyway, I can't thank you enough for sharing this! I only wish other new and upcoming writers would read this and think twice before they start trying to write their 'masterpieces'!
By the way, I just did my 12,000th review on this site today! This one is my 12,001st! *Bigsmile*
Kee ponw ritin gon, Voxxylady! 'Twas a pleasure to read, thanks for letting me vent, and have a fantastic day!

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