If you're writing just for fun, then feel free to continue as you are. But if you were hoping to be published, and you say your English is actually *better* than your French, and you're actually French (meaning French is probably your mother tongue), then I can only assume your language skills in general is erm... not quite up to par to be published, let's say. I'd strongly encourage you to brush up on your grammar before you attempt writing a book. And if you do know how to punctuate your sentences, then please punctuate them. It's just courteous. This is a writer's forum - putting in proper or even just a few commas here and there should really be second nature.
Hate to state the obvious, but the cleaner you write, the more serious you will be taken and the better responses you'll receive. Not just here, not just in the White House (or the Canadian equivalent of that), but pretty much anywhere. It's another thing to have dyslexia or simply not knowing how to do it, but knowing yet refusing makes it difficult for us to take your project seriously, plus, as @Mckk implied, it's actually quite impolite not to do it if you can. I'm not trying to be mean, but even the forum rules encourage this: Good luck with your story.
Lol. But you're on a writer's forum, asking a huge bunch of writers, for writing advice. The truth is, if people here *didn't* care about your grammar, shouldn't that actually rather disturb you? It'd disturb me How do I know I can trust the advice of writers who don't even care about clearly conveying a message by punctuating it properly? Anyway, welcome to the forum Hope this hasn't put you off. I promise you we're actually a pretty friendly bunch.
I think i get what you mean here, in something ive written Earth and Fire belong to the Dwarves, Air and Water to the Elves and Electric and Dark to Humans, but i am sure that you can swap the dark to spirit to get it to work My logic - Elves, dwell outside amongst plants, so air and water are required. Dwarves - miners and smiths, and the whole thing of being "Wrought from stone" that comes with them, so Earth and Fire which leaves our beloved race which in this case are the Mages Does this help at all? Si vous voulez, je peut t'aider en francais?
Oh yes. Gosh, I hope I didn't come off too harsh! I'm not a grammar Nazi as such... more like an armed grammar ranger... who wears a cool outfit, combat boots, the works. Haha, yeah, be it thanks to him or his editor, but the grammar has been of fairly high quality in his books -- the content is a different matter . Now if he were to post on a writing forum... Who knows, maybe it'd be a different story, all netspeek and missing apostrophes.
@KaTrian @Nightstar99 - just thought of this article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10049454/Dont-make-fun-of-renowned-Dan-Brown.html It's excellent
