02-21-2014, 02:36 AM
(02-21-2014, 02:20 AM)mariah?! Wrote:
amen, yo. i write and spell 10x better than both my peers and family and friends. bchan's initial comment about not caring about spelling is a great representation of why the majority of today's generation [and perhaps even the ones before it] are illiterate.
today's generation: what with spellcheck and autocorrect, who needs to know how to spell?
previous generation: booksmarts will get you nowhere in this world. manual labor, getting your hands dirty? that's what pays off.
hell, my parents are of that last opinion there, so you can imagine how they feel about my aspiring to be a writer. in public school, i was bullied for reading books and writing in my journal.
good grammar is the difference between knowing you're shit and your shit.
as for the powerplaying issue, i'm a big enough girl to politely [ahurr] remind whoever i'm roleplaying with who's playing who. apparently i'm an arrogant nitch, but hey, honesty's a virtue, yo.
I've been called less than polite names in the past for being assertive about ME writing for MY character, but nowadays, the assertiveness is returning.
I take a lot of time, and put a lot of effort into creating my original characters, I am the only person who gets to write for them unless given my explicit permission.
Hell, even in fandom RP, I put elaborate headcanon into my muses, and they're still of my own thoughts and design, don't friggin write MY characters for me. Some Pacific Rim OC did that to me on one of my RP blogs, I ended up just not replying to their crap anymore. My character's thoughts and emotions are written by me, thank you very much.