So you've waited since May for this journal to be updated, wishing and waiting and watching and worrying and... whatever else you do. And here it is; a real, genuine, bonafide, down and dirty entry. But not just an entry, a rant, and who can deny the strange affection we all have for bitter militant sewage talk? Today's topic, something I've been meaning to write about for a while.

A deviant with a head on his shoulders and a heart still beating in his chest has taken up the cause. =Forksofthesalad ( [link] ) along with committed deviants across this expansive community are rallying against unpolished prose deviations. Now I love editing as much as any aspiring editor would, but I don't think that many of us display our works here to get them edited. I think we expect readers to enjoy or plots and story elements. To experience our novels, short stories, essays, et. al. to their fullest, and damn it people that means minimal errors in such basic areas as grammar and spelling. So what is there to be done? Most of the errors I catch in reading prose deviations are easily caught by most word processors. Before submitting a dev. take a minute to run that spell-check, at the very least, and if you are a writer who is looking to really get some feedback, give your audience a break and proofread your work yourself! That leaves readers to focus their full attention on content, not having to chop through jungles of misspellings or the quagmires of poor sentence structure. If someone really doesn't want to go through the trouble of carefully reading through their own work, what makes them think anyone else will want to either? Rant over.

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