I'm sorry but I'm a shameless author... Now I'm gonna take up alot of character space so I can post my review about. I really hope people read and like my work. I like to write because it makes me happy but I'm also really shy about posting my works. I have problems with grammar, past tense and present tense and points of view but I'll try really hard so I don't mess up. Please be gentle if I do mess up and help me out in the comments on how I should have done it. I'm not saying I'll use anyone's help but that I'll try and learn from it. In case no one understands, I have a quote that fits my situation. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
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I have issues with that idiom. 1. A goldfish will feed a man for at most an hour 2. Is this idiom ***ist because they use the term "man" to talk about the human species? 3. If a man is starving, and instead of giving him a fish you attempt to teach him how to fish, he may die while fishing. 4. If you taught a man to fish, but he fails to catch anything and dies, is that a lifetime? 5. Assuming a human can be taught is fallacious. 6. What if the 2 people in this scenario are landlocked? There is imported fish that you could give the man, but teaching him to fish is a useless endeavor. I have more...but i'll be merciful.
Actually....no. Mercy is too kind for this idiom. 7. If there is an apocalyptic event where all the fish were wiped out, isn't learning to fish useless? 8. If you try to teach a man to fish, but you both find a horse that someone led to water, won't you eat that instead? 9. If you give a man a fish, he could feed himself and his family for over ten years /r/FrugalJerk 10. The man is a character in Jaws. Don't take him to water. 11. If you gave a man an improperly prepared puffer-fish, he will eat for a minute, and then die. 12. If you teach a man to fish, he will create a small seaside fish store. Using the meager profits he makes, he will invest into apple and become a billionair. He will use his newly earned fortune to expand his fishing buisiness, and eventually take over every market for fish in the world. Then he will take over the world. Then the people have to rise up against his fishy tyranny and kill him and return the power to the people.
I wrote this in hope of people pointing out my faults in my writing so I can improve. By 'teach a man to fish' I meant that i'd like constructive critism instead of people just saying I'm useless and should drop my novel. I wont learn anything if im just told im useless, so pointing out where I can improve is most appreciated.
I totally get that...but it seems you don't know a joke when you see one lol.
It was obvious you were taking the micky but i still wanted to reply in that 0.01% chance you were serious. I'm sorry if I annoyed you.
no no. though reading my comment it did sound like i was annoyed. im not.
28 cm is a bit much i think. most woman wil run away screaming yelling at you to find a pony.
I'm sorry, I heard 17cm was the average so I wanted him to be 'slightly above average'. Also, now thinking about it, 28cm is almost the length of a full ruler so I makes sense that it's TOO big. I'll rewrite it to a more... reasonable size.
I recommend Grammarly, it corrects grammar and spelling. You can also learn from your mistakes with it.
