Grab a chair and a couple of root beers...

How many of you have read fics, be they fan-fiction or original, and thought, "Dude, seriously, you need to actually use the spell-check and grammar-check functions on your computer!!"

*stops to count hands*

Okay, so... how many of you have read fics, be they fan-fiction or original, and realized that they not only did use spell-check and grammar-check, but... they either didn't have enough background to choose the appropriate words, or... just picked at random, and still bombed?

*nods as she counts the hands*

Yeah. Me, too. And you know what? It's not any less jarring, is it? You just can't win.

*laughs ruefully and returns to keeping kids from killing each other/blowing up the house/ending life as we know it on Earth*

You know, I've been doing my share of snickering and moaning at the snippets of Epically Bad Fic that folks like shocolate and brumeux77 have been posting, but when I read bad fics, I usually hit the back button and do my best to forget it.

*adds "brain-bleach" to shopping list*

However, just now, I clicked on something... well, not interesting, but I thought it was worth a skim.

I should have known at "Shacklebot Kingsley was only too happy to oblige his best Auror..." that this was not going to go well. And no, that's not a typo on my part. Apparently, Kingsley is a Shacklebot. Does this mean he goes around, locking people into cuffs?

*moves on*

This is what made me stop and decide not to read any further.

"He was startled again, when out of nowhere came a gust of epigrammatic wind and his invisibility cloak, his most prized possession, had dropped onto the dewy grounds."

O_o

Epigrammatic wind???

"Epigrammatic - (adjective) Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing: an epigrammatic style."

And in case you are wondering, an epigram is a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. It can also be a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending.

So....... is this writer saying the wind is amusing and witty? or concise? perhaps satirical?

*flails*

Heavens, what are they teaching the children in school these days???