Obsessed with wrestling

[The Icon 152]

http://www.wrestling101.com/101/article/marks-eye/806/

 

Kurtmark (that would be me) has put his first column on W101.

 

Now on Kam's advice I have started this thread to get your views on the topic.

 

Good replies will be quoted in future column's.

[Guest yoyo]

Good read but I watch Afterburn sometimes and I'm not obsessed...

[The Icon 152]

That depend, do you watch afterburn if you already saw RAW / SD or only if you missed it?

[Guest yoyo]

Most of the time when I missed it, but sometimes I'm bored out of my mind and watch it.

[The Icon 152]

Bored, Obsessed it's a fine line.

[DC 536]

Nice article bub.......I would say I'm obsessed with wrestling......every time I hear a tune, I try and work out if it would work as an entrance theme for someone....I turn almost every conversation to wrestling somehow, and wil find a wrestling refernce in almost everything.....hell I even watch World Of Sport and Rikishi's fed on TWC.....

[Guest Russ]

For God's sake, spell check it over and over and over. Proof read it. Send it to someone else to proof read. Get them to send it to someone else to proof read it again. Your erratic form of typing doesn't look out of place on the TWO forums, a site where many people choose to type in lower case letters. However, when you have published work on a site that you expect people to read, it really does need to be checked for silly little mistakes.

 

You can be a terrible speller, horrible with grammar and a disaster with punctuation. That's no excuse in 2006, when you have access to a thousand different spell checkers. Put it through Word a few times, and pay attention to the errors it may point out. If you don't have Word, download the free alternative, Open Office. Even if you type "Spellchecker" into Google you'll be struck with a barrage of options to help you.

 

I've said it about newsletter columns at TWO, and it's no different to articles on a website; if you make a lot of basic errors in your typing, it gives the impression you don't give a crap about what you're saying. Dave Meltzer can get away with it in brief news updates, but that's because he writes it daily. You're not so constricted with deadlines. Put some effort into making your work presentable, otherwise you're going to turn people off it.

 

There are questions which don't end in a question mark. Letters in the middle of a sentence capitalised for no reason: "Firstly withdrawal symptoms, If I saw no wrestling...". Run on sentences with no commas. It's horribly written to be honest, and there's no excuse when you have a whole host of resources at your disposal to fix the quality of the writing.

 

This is all an effort to help you. If you're appealing to the mass audience, namely those who read wrestling columns, you're going to want to dress up your thoughts and opinions in a presentable manner. If you don't improve the quality of your writing, you're going to end up having people refusing to read what you're writing. You could very well make some valid points, but if it reads as a rambling run on sentence, it's going to leave a bad impression.

 

I'd strongly recommend taking some pride in your work, and in future, thoroughly check each piece before you're happy with it being submitted to a reasonably popular website. The writing quality of your first column really hurt any point you tried to convey.

[The Icon 152]

Firstly I did run it through spellcheck in word.

 

Secondly my weak point is punctuation, I never remember where to put commas and such.

 

It should be noted though Kam uploaded it, I'm sure he proof read it first.

 

Oh I should also mention I have to edit it in notepad, Kam for some reason can't read my word files. Notepad doesn't have a proper spellcheck.

[Guest Russ]

Hey, don't feel like you need to make excuses. My points were there to help you, whether you choose to accept my criticisms or not is up to you. If you feel it's presentable as it is, good for you.

[The Icon 152]

No I accept them all right.

[Guest Ro_y Disco]

Well done! It was quite an entertaining read. Maybe even brilliant as a first go.

 

However, as was said before, the grammer was pretty bad (spelling not so bad, only one mistake I spoted). Try and seek some help with that (hey, I'd help you if your desperate). Also, some of the ordering was a little muddled, but that's a skill you'll hopefully perfect with time (or someone will help you perfect).

 

I'd have to agree with most of the article and agree that I am obsessed. Espicially when I have to go without, on holiday for example. On the third day is when I tend to start to lose it. After five or six days, I have to get some form of wrestling. Be that buying a video, going to a show (if no video/DVD player is to hand) or buying a wrestling related book/ magazine. It's a rareity I go a day without watching wrestling in some form at home.

[Guest The Great Ahmar]

A good read, and it did point it out to me that i'm obsessed with Wrestling!