What’s the biggest blooper you have made in a story?

[Bisexguy70]

Apparently i made enough bloopers for lit to reject the story i submitted. They never gave a reason why. Im not a great writer so i gave up. If only in English class they would have assignments to write about sexual fantasies, i would have tried harder. And of course I'm talking college level, not grade school. Oh well, i got my rocks off as i wrote my story about being forced Gay so thats all that matters

 

[Milene]

In one of my earliest stories, I had a character named Wheeler who showed up in two or three successive chapters. His name was spelled differently in each chapter. The same way within each chapter, but each chapter was different from the others.

I think I might have cried the first time I realized it.

How many ways can you spell “Wheeler”??? Just curious.

 

[Zootonius]

The whole (hole) area of homonym mistakes can be quite amusing. I posted earlier about writing "Web sight." I only knew about it because someone commented they stopped reading after that mistake!

(Life as a grammar Nazi must be hard.)

 

[Stimtheone]

The whole (hole) area of homonym mistakes can be quite amusing. I posted earlier about writing "Web sight." I only knew about it because someone commented they stopped reading after that mistake!

(Life as a grammar Nazi must be hard.)

Oh, man... that reminds me of a recent story (Won't tell you which) where there were a few such issues that I managed to notice.

If I start explaining the issues, it might be identified, but the same "sight" instead of "site" mistake and at one point a word used without even knowing its meaning and flubbing its use.

After a few more comments, it was clear they were more copying it from hearing it.

 

[Duleigh]

As I write my stories I realized early that I would confuse MC's names. Somehow a blind professor of literature got transferred from a small college in St. Paul MN to an AC-130 gunship taking ground fire from a terrorist group over Somalia. I almost submitted that error and only caught it at the very last possible moment. Learning VERY quickly occurred and now I hit ^h and swap Jake for Josh (or the other way around as needed) as step 1 of the editing process. When these series finally end up, I'm going to work extra hard on assigning unique names.

 

[AwkwardMD]

How many ways can you spell “Wheeler”??? Just curious.

Wheeler, Whealer, and Wheezer

 

[AlexBailey]

Wheeler, Whealer, and Wheezer

I’ve had an elderly client for years who likes to give my phone number out but he can’t remember my name. When I get calls for Eric, Alec, or Axel I know they came from him.

 

[Trionyx]

The whole (hole) area of homonym mistakes can be quite amusing. I posted earlier about writing "Web sight." I only knew about it because someone commented they stopped reading after that mistake!

(Life as a grammar Nazi must be hard.)

It never hurts to review or keep readily available one of the How To submissions to help prevent such errors.

https://www.literotica.com/s/a-fucking-english-lesson

 

[Duleigh]

How many ways can you spell “Wheeler”??? Just curious.

wealer
wheelher

 

[creative1772]

i once switched tenses while writing and didnt bother to proofread before submitting....
got called out on it and felt stupid... such an unforced error lol

 

[RetroFan]

I thought that 'Grumpy Humphrey's Easy Wife' had a nice ring to it when I submitted it and it definitely sums up the story well, but I didn't realize until later that there was a celebrity pet called Grumpy Humphrey, a small dog. While not as famous as the late Grumpy Cat in the 2010s, 'Grumpy Humphrey' does have a reasonable online following.

I just hope that some nice wholesome family looking up amusing Grumpy Humphrey videos online don't accidentally stumble across my story, which is extremely explicit and as mean-spirited as they come, featuring a cast of detestable characters.

 

[StrangeLife]

Wrote a 3 parter where the MC pulls a Glock 17 on another guy. Later in part 3 he muses over, how he almost gave him a cal. 45 piercing or something like that.

Unfortunately the Glock 17 ain't a 45....

 

[Duleigh]

Wrote a 3 parter where the MC pulls a Glock 17 on another guy. Later in part 3 he muses over, how he almost gave him a cal. 45 piercing or something like that.

Unfortunately the Glock 17 ain't a 45....

I used to be a classified courier and carried a side arm. At some point the USAF switched from .45 to 9mm like a Glock 17 without asking my permission. When I went to the armory to arm up and put a few holes in a target they handed me a cute little 9mm and I was stunned. I stood there staring at this little pop gun in my hand and the armorer said, "Got a problem sarge?"

I replied, "No, but do you have one in a man's size?"

 

[ElectricBlue]

Apparently i made enough bloopers for lit to reject the story i submitted. They never gave a reason why. Im not a great writer so i gave up. If only in English class they would have assignments to write about sexual fantasies, i would have tried harder. And of course I'm talking college level, not grade school. Oh well, i got my rocks off as i wrote my story about being forced Gay so thats all that matters

There'll be a reason.

Lit uses a standard set of rejection notices, usually in the form of a number of questions. Address the questions, tweak your text or argue your case in a Note to the Editor, and resubmit.

 

[lovecraft68]

This doesn't quite qualify because I caught it, but...

The white button down shit she wore.

My girl has some fancy shit, and she's wearing it well.

 

[Djmac1031]

i once switched tenses while writing and didnt bother to proofread before submitting....
got called out on it and felt stupid... such an unforced error lol

I'm probably far more guilty of that than I realize.

 

[EmilyMiller]

What’s the biggest blooper you have made in a story?​

I have a new one. My latest novella involves the part of the DOJ responsible for protecting judges, pursuing fugitives, moving witnesses about, and the witness security program.

For the first few chapters I referred to the organization and its members like this…


And of course spellcheck was totally cool with that as the word was always capitalized: Supervisory Marshall Esperanza Molinera.

It was only when @Voboy helped me out with some gun-related questions (thanks, hun ) that the penny dropped.

Soooo embarrassing

Emily

 

[MyBareTorso]

Eek, I said that Puerto Rico was in South America...a commenter helpfully informed me it was actually in the Caribbean. It's fine for people to point out errors, but sometimes it feels like they're crouched behind a bush, just waiting to pounce on you! I think some punters read through a story going, "Please let there be a mistake! Let me feel better than someone else!"

 

[EmilyMiller]

Eek, I said that Puerto Rico was in South America...a commenter helpfully informed me it was actually in the Caribbean. It's fine for people to point out errors, but sometimes it feels like they're crouched behind a bush, just waiting to pounce on you! I think some punters read through a story going, "Please let there be a mistake! Let me feel better than someone else!"

I think there is a type of Lit denizen who does just that.

Emily

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I have a new one. My latest novella involves the part of the DOJ responsible for protecting judges, pursuing fugitives, moving witnesses about, and the witness security program.

For the first few chapters I referred to the organization and its members like this…

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And of course spellcheck was totally cool with that as the word was always capitalized: Supervisory Marshall Esperanza Molinera.

It was only when @Voboy helped me out with some gun-related questions (thanks, hun ) that the penny dropped.

Soooo embarrassing

Emily

I don't get it?

It dawned on me recently that I have characters drinking Kraken rum about 5 years before it was invented. Though as other characters in the same universe age 20 years in 10 for various reasons, it's sort of consistent.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I don't get it?

Marshall the name vs marshal the LEO

 

[EmilyMiller]

I don't get it?

As in:

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Ah, Merriam-Webster explains why I didn't see the problem even after you brought up the trauma of that sodding TV show again (it's taken a decade to forget its shitness...)

Marshall is, by the way, a long-established spelling variant of marshal. The two l's usually get used for proper nouns, like names and places—and stores—but both common noun and verb uses of marshal are sometimes spelled marshall, especially in British English.

Never occurred to me the military guys couldn't have two Ls.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Never occurred to me the military guys couldn't have two Ls.

I don’t think I ever had occasion to write the word (either spelling) before this story. Not that this is a great excuse as I did quite a lot of research about ranks in the Marshals Service, and entrance requirements, and badges / ID cards, and their duties, and vehicles, and guns - lots of guns (thanks again @Voboy ).

I also did quite a bit of research about West Coast locations (down to the architecture of specific prisons), though the East Coast ones I left vague (as based on where I live TBH).

Emily

 

[AlexBailey]

Ah, Merriam-Webster explains why I didn't see the problem even after you brought up the trauma of that sodding TV show again (it's taken a decade to forget its shitness...)

Marshall is, by the way, a long-established spelling variant of marshal. The two l's usually get used for proper nouns, like names and places—and stores—but both common noun and verb uses of marshal are sometimes spelled marshall, especially in British English.

Never occurred to me the military guys couldn't have two Ls.

I knew a female rocker who played guitar through a Marshall amplifier. She broke the two “L”s off of the emblem.