Hmmm, I read your story Majikku and I think Crescent opened up with the critique rather well in regards to your spelling and grammar. And grammar checks on programs like Wordperfect and Microsoft Word are not the end all be all of checkers. Just a suggestion from a voice of experience, the best person to help out with the two subjects aforementioned by Crescent would be an english teacher or a helpful college english professor. In general though, on the net, people can be very lenient and I am fluent in Typonese myself. ;) Heh, God knows I'm not the perfect writer. Oh and I should add, always be ready for the "Critic Badger", if it senses that you wear your heart on your sleeve, it will get you every time and tear you to shreds. Always look for the gem in someone's critique rather than look for a fight. I guess if I were to guess the genre you are using is some sort of Gothic style? It seemed rather morose, but too fluffy to jerk on any emotional chains on my part as the reader. In fact, my interest dwindled each paragraph and the reason why was from the story feeling like it was going nowhere or at the very least in a vicious time loop. At least that was my perception, which to someone else they might look at me and say, "huh?". I, the Hammer, do that to people time to time. Ok, maybe all the time, but that's just little precious me. (cutesy cherub pose) :) Keep writing, I see a lot of promise in you!