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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 544501" data-attributes="member: 8394">Read Finnegans Wake lately Vaxalon?"Bad" grammar is no good for gamebooks (whose authorship ought to be completely deficient in style, more or less anonymous, since it is written for utility), but an article by a person can do anything.As far as the difficulty involved, when two friends of mine and I decided to put together the Holocron (netbook) for WEG's d6 Star Wars we didn't find it terribly difficult, and that thing was large.  I'm sure there were hundreds of editorial errors (we didn't really care), but I havn't purchased a book, let alone got something for free, in which I didn't spot at least 10-20 errors (probably per 100 pages), not counting the shoddy prose; and for those of us with sensitive ears bad prose reads like an oboe out of tune sounds.The only advice I would offer on writing "opinion" pieces for an ezine is that you use the kind of English you can talk perfectly well with.  Most people run into trouble when they try to do this thing called "writing" (whatever that is).</blockquote>