There should be rules against re-writing

[burntcopper]

That fic I talked about that, that landed fully plotted out?

I wrote it up, then send it to megolas for her to take out her vitriol against GCSE English students who apparently can't write the language, let alone know what grammar or spelling is. My mistake. It came back with 're-write!' marked on nearly every paragraph except the dialogue. And yes, it's getting better as I go and expand the scenes, but still, :sulk:

Plus we argue about tenses and grammar.

kabukivice: better?
megolas: I was busy wrangling your tenses. :g:
megolas: yes, much.
kabukivice: pah. the present tense is my friend, as is the past imperfect and the furutre plu perfect, and they feel left out if I don't use them all at once.
kabukivice: (understand that I'm far enough down the road from my language lessons to only recognise past, present and future these days)
megolas: :snerk:
megolas: that's more than today's gcse students

kabukivice: since when were space vampires capitalised?
kabukivice: snakeheads aren't.
megolas: true. although, it is a noun of sorts, so.
kabukivice: it is a *description*.
kabukivice: a signifier rather than a name.
kabukivice: what are we, German?
megolas: I blame a childhood spent being partly bilingual in a germanic language.
kabukivice: :thwaps you: this is English. the rules are entirely different from any other language and follow no logic.
kabukivice: when in doubt, sentence case.

Comments

[birdsflying]

Hehehe. How's that rewrite going then, eh?

[snarkymcsnarker.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I'm not insane. Secondly, have you posted this fic yet? I've been looking for this *exact* thing because I read it recently and I cannot find it ANYWHERE and it's making me a little buggy. I'm not sure if the one I read was yours, but the one you're describing sound just like the one I read. Thirdly, if you have posted it, could you point me to it?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

It's posted and on sga_flashfic - here (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/332499.html). Not posted here yet because the challenge hasn't ended on that comm.