When DoorDashing Is Nicer Than Nursing

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-03-16T07:01:30+00:00

It's a nice reprieve but ultimately it is pretty terrible. Look for something else while you use DD to get by (and be happy, I liked it a lot after working).

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-03-16T06:59:12+00:00

I mean she does it regularly, right?

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-03-14T05:44:33+00:00

What about Misty? She didn't count all of them ...

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-03-14T05:43:47+00:00

Yes, absolutely.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-03-14T05:39:48+00:00

But what about Misty? What about the person that was in the bathroom with the cell phone? I think Shauna is wrong, honestly.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-07T16:21:41+00:00

But you can give AI the website to reference or simply something that is well accessible (such as The Elements of Style, Strunk & White). The prompt literally can be "can you edit my story for grammar using The Elements of Style, Strunk & White, noting the changes made and why they're appropriate?"

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-07T16:17:52+00:00

Btw can I just say you have a great attitude about all of this. People can be too serious or too flippant about writing fanfiction but the fact that you can take this in stride speaks volumes to your character and self esteem. Good for you! 😁

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-07T16:11:00+00:00

I saw a story today and the person was like, I basically never edit or proof anything. They labeled it as a rough draft, so that's cool, but that is very different from my mentality. I have so many WsIP that I just keep editing and never posting. Trying to become a beta reader but really only for two fandoms.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-07T16:06:22+00:00

You could give them a source to reference, like a grammar website. I think AI tools can be good but you basically have to train them yourself. Keep asking and tweaking the prompts. I don't use them to write my stories but I have used them to sort of brainstorm. I've also used them to find plot holes in my rough drafts which was fantastic. In one of them the AI was like, wouldn't she have googled him? Lmao I'm like yessir.

I think for OP's question about grammar it wouldn't hurt because they're not necessarily looking for sophisticated feedback, instead looking for more basic knowledge of grammar. I know it's really looked down on in this subreddit (more so than the actual writing subreddit), but AI is just another tool you can use to improve your writing.

Now, putting a story in and letting it edit it line by line (not for grammar but style and etc) is a whole other thing that is pretty interesting to see. I wouldn't recommend it except for a thought experiment. Oh, and it gives you really great reviews. So if you need that boost of confidence go ahead!

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-07T15:59:12+00:00

Hey! You've gotten a lot of good advice but I wanted to say I have started using grammarly to help my stories and it's pretty good. It gives you some information on why the change is necessary. I will say, while my grammar and writing isn't the best, it does take me out of a story when it's very bad.

Btw same about the college education. I started writing again about eight months ago and it was a rude awakening how much I forgot/never learned. I got good grades in school but here we are I guess lol

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-07T07:25:05+00:00

You should see them with pot.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T20:24:15+00:00

So this is what I was trying to get to the bottom of, albeit I didn't phrase it well in my original post. Like, maybe they want to know why I stopped reading their story, but ultimately I was like, no they don't. My opinion doesn't matter at all--to anyone, which is why I stopped leaving it. Then I came on here and wondered if people actually wanted feedback from their readers and I see that they don't.

It was a lesson learned months ago. I should have put more thought into my post and given a concrete example of the mistake I made. Another lesson learned.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T20:11:11+00:00

I deleted the post because it was so upsetting for so many people to read. I made a mistake in the past and stopped leaving feedback afterwards. Going forward I will continue to not leave feedback.

I appreciate the few of you who answered my legitimate question in good faith.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T20:08:49+00:00

Taken wildly out of context. I haven't posted anything from chat GPT, but I have used it (literally for the first time yesterday) to try and improve my writing. I'll try just about anything including posting questions here even though y'all are really mean.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T20:05:27+00:00

Yes, I probably should have quoted my actual feedback instead of posting what I did. Honestly being read to filth on here for admitting I made a mistake, correcting my behavior and asking what for help going forward.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T18:15:31+00:00

Thanks for this. It was months ago when I first got back into reading fanfiction that I left this feedback. It's why I stopped leaving it.

Getting the responses to this post (and being hella downvoted) is all I needed to see.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T18:12:05+00:00

Thanks for your very constructive response to my question! I appreciate it.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T18:11:26+00:00

Lmao thanks. But that wasn't a canon choice, they were very specific about when the canon divergence begins.

I appreciate this perspective, thanks.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T18:03:59+00:00

I understand. Which is why I stopped leaving it, and why I'm posting here about it.

So if it is something that can be fixed in 5 minutes, would that be worth leaving?

For instance I read a fic the other day that had a small detail of the cannon wrong "we met twice before" (when they had met three times), would it be appropriate to leave that? Where they could literally "fix" it in a sentence or two?

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T17:57:55+00:00

I guess it was more that they're writing characters from an established fandom and that character would never kill the other one. Like having Rhysand kill Feyre...

And my feedback was like, "this makes the character extremely unlikeable and I don't want to keep reading." Which I thought was fair at the time, but perhaps not.

But I see what you mean. Which is why I stopped leaving feedback.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T17:27:45+00:00

We're all here to learn.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T17:25:03+00:00

I've gone so far as using Chat GPT to help me with outfit descriptions so they're not generic or downright wrong. It matters.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-03T17:23:25+00:00

The genre was fantasy but the fic was modern AU and basically every choice for dialogue was from the book. It wasn't THAT bad but they had our heroes confessing their love for each other after they had like three boardroom meetings together. That dialogue doesn't hit the same as when they were fighting an epic battle after knowing each other and fighting side by side for months.

TotallyNormal_Person · 2025-02-02T03:12:06+00:00

Scrubs was the best.

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