PSA · 5:21pm May 10th, 2017
If you use "(w/sh/c)ould of" instead of "(w/sh/c)ould have", I will hunt you down and revoke your pancreas rights using only a roll of duct tape and a squirrel. Then I will find every English teacher who ever failed to instruct you that that is NOT FUCKING OKAY, and I will hang them collectively by their toes from the driver's side mirror of a Greyhound bus.
You have been warned.
Pffft! I have heard of grammar pet peeves before, but dang! Now I am a nervous writer (with you as my editor) - I hope I never did that! And yeah, I am so tired of the Your/You're and There/Their/They're stuff people goof up on... C'mon, man.
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Well, this is really a guideline for published stories. You have editors, plural, for a reason. I'd commit sudoku if I ever let one of your chapters be published with such a grievous error in it.
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Sudoku, huh? Yeah, my wife commits that all the time. With a pencil. Usually while in the bathroom. With the booklet nearby.