Problems with writing.

Hello to all!

So, have you decided what is your passion? But there are some problems with just writing when you get down to it. I love writing. Adore it. But there are also some elements of it that I dislike intensely.Grammar is one of them. Spelling is another. Unfortunately though, you MUST HAVE these in order to allow people to read your words comfortably.

Imagine you are driving on a lovely, smooth road. Or that's what it appears to be. Then you hit a small unexpected rise on the road itself, or worse, a large pothole. What happens? You get shook up, and your calm and peace are jolted, as well as your good self. You continue on, but the pleasant feeling tends to evaporate for a while.

This is the feeling that your reader, no matter if they are children, will get if your spelling or your grammar are off. If you are into Internet marketing, for your own sake, ensure that these two elements of writing are perfect. You may be a lousy word-smith, but you don't have to make it worse for yourself. There are some who will deliberately go out of their way to find these mistakes in your writing, whether it be sales copy or a novel.

And, believe it or not, they WILL make you pay for those run-of-the- mill mistakes. They will leave you bad reviews, consider your products second-rate, so not worth buying, and numerous other things, none of them good for your business. If your main work is as a writer, then you will lose clients quickly.

One of the best information products you can buy is a spelling guide. Computers do have them installed, but you need to know the small differences if you are writing for an American English reader or an English English one. This can be a subject in itself, but you MUST get it right, or you will have many rejections, because people are people with funny little quirks.

I am planning on writing a guide to the differences, but I have no idea when. It is stacking up as a big work, so I'll be doing it in sections.:) But, for now, just train yourself to check every sentence. If your words are great, but your spelling and grammar are not, then you have lost a potential client straight-up.

And that should be enough to get you motivated to do this.