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When a new story hits the site or a chapter (or more) get added to an existing story, there is an entry on the SOL home page. If I actually have some free time, enough to at least sample a story new to me, I read the story's title and description. Certain story angles (tags) will turn me away from sampling. That's good, because that's what they're there for. However, if the description (much less, the title!) has numerous grammatical and/or typographical errors, particularly egregious ones, I pass.
The descriptions are restricted to 500 characters, so one would think one could go only so wrong. Unfortunately that is not the case. Many authors seem to use outside review/editing to tighten up their stories. However, the same authors do not seem to have their story descriptions reviewed/edited, and that's a shame. I may have passed on stories that I might have liked. However, I just cannot handle wading through stories with a substantial number of errors in grammar, word choice, spelling, and syntax. I appreciate that I am weird, odd, and other minor pejoratives in this regard, but I just cannot do it.
So, I apologize to those authors that I have not read because the poorly written description (or title!) turned me off.
While making the near-final edit of Chapter 49, I found that I had wandered into the weeds in Chapter 48 in the text about rockets. I have revamped that bit by stealing a bit from Chapter 49, which I will need to redo in places. The revamped Chapter 48 is in the queue.
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