Summary:
Writing fiction which is fit for publishing is a dream for every emerging writer.

To this end, it is important that he or she pay the right amount of attention to grammar and spelling. This article talks about the whys and hows of doing just that.

Details or Sample:
You are a budding fiction writer, and the main things that preoccupy your mind are creativity, story, plot, characterization and so on. But what about grammar and spelling? Why bother--- you would have a nitpicking editor slaving over your work, polishing up ................

Well, so you think.

In order to get to that splendid editor employed by that publishing house of your dreams, you will have to put your manuscript through a literary agent or an editor. They are the ones who decide if your work makes the cut or not. Each one of them is struggling with what he or she calls “slush piles”: ................sort of writing are they likely to choose? A grammatically problem-free, perfectly- spelled one, or one that needs to be constantly weeded for spelling and grammar?

The answer is a no-brainer.

Even if your manuscript is the most brilliantly crafted and original piece in the world, it is headed ...........

So how do you craft a manuscript with perfect grammar and spelling? Here are a few answers, some more likely than the others, but all equally important.

Use the dictionary: Here is the most common answer. A dictionary does give you the correct spelling, the context in which a word ............

Learn up grammar books: This is a very obvious but also very boring answer. As a student in primary or high school you may have found ...........

Read, read, read: Here is an answer that is less obvious, but works nonetheless. Most books lying around in your house or the library have been checked and double checked for the impeccability of their language.

As you enjoy your reading over the years, your brain imbibes the correct grammar, ...........

Listen: An even more obscure answer to correct grammar usage lies in listening to the correct language, spoken on channels ....................

....... you will discover the need to check the correct usage just when you are about to commit an error.

Write: This is too obvious to be an answer, but the more you write, the more grammatically strong you become. Each time ............

Proofread: Even people with the best skills in grammar and spelling end up making mistakes. The best spellcheckers ............

All this is worth the effort, considering what has been said here before, but bears repeating:

“Even if your manuscript is the most brilliantly crafted and ...........

None of the answers given here are easy or short-term, but as a fiction writer you can only ignore grammar and spelling at your peril. Remember, you might just have to pay for your errors with rejection slips.

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