“It was the very next day, he was so suppose to download the emergency copy….”
This sentence written to a reviewer by an irate author, shows the extent of her misguided intentions when she wrote again, “there is nothing wrong with my writing”. There is something wrong with every writing. No one but no one has come to the point of being perfect in writing.
Humble acceptance of this would have been much more classy on oh so many levels. When this author was told by the reviewer that her book had some errors, she lost it on the Net and slammed this reader / reviewer to the wall, even accusing him of bias and discrimination based on nationality.
In her writing to him, I found this sentence she wrote and realized that not only is she arrogant but blatantly ignorant.
Years ago, a friend showed me a note she had written and in it was the horrendous error of “suppose to”. The “d” is obviously silent so people who cannot write simple English do not add it. When I fixed her note, she stood up and said, “God …. foreigners trying to tell me how to speak my own God … f$%^&& language.” Then walked out slamming the door behind her. A few days later, she apologized after showing the note to a teacher friend.
Accept correction with grace. Receive rejection with humility. The problem is that we have not been subjected to the hundreds of rejections good authors like Stephen King had to endure in days past. Get over it and keep writing. Take English writing courses. Learn grammar. But keep writing and keep your mouth shut. Arguing with your readers is pathetic and uncouth.