The Importance of Proofreading Your Spec
You must proofread your spec before you ask someone to read it. A reader will tolerate a handful (no more than five) typos before they stop reading. A typo, by the way, is when your type "anothet" instead of "another" because the r key and t key are next to each other. But using "there" when you mean "they're" throughout the script or misusing a comma (or not using a comma at all) is not a typo; it's a grammatical error. And readers are much less forgiving of grammatical errors. Flawless story structure does not make up for poor English skills. If you want to be hired as a writer, you must submit a script free of grammatical errors.
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