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Comment by EwanToo | Hacker News Reader

Is it just me, or is it weird that this brand new blog (really just an advert for a writing company) has had 3 blog posts, all 3 have been submitted to HN (2 by the same person), and all 3 have gotten pretty high scores?

The other 2 stories being:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304317 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5292431

They must be good writers!

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EwanToo I am the writer- those two guys just showed me the site. I used to blog on my company website (for like a month) but I quit because it never went anywhere- but when it gets posted here people talk about it- comment etc. made me want to write more.

I'm glad to hear you're a real person then :)

Hate to do the grammar nazi here, but since the company seems to offer grammar editing, reading phrases like

    This new method helped us to raise a more money in less time then normal boring pledge drives.

doesn't lead to much trust in their skills...

Yea I don't make much money as an editor. see: http://www.articulateventures.com/thoughts-on-being-an-emplo...

That's an interesting article, thanks. And I'd like to say that I did enjoy your first article too, and that I was willing to overlook the tiny details... until I came here and saw that writing (and more than writing - grammar editing) was your core competency.

But I'm curious then: do you currently do the grammar editing yourself (in your "Fixer" package)?

Please, please fix "I am a good writer, the content that I create is quiet good (I think)". That's the first line of your paragraph about gramatical oversights, and you say "quiet" instead of "quite". Also, the "(i think)" makes me feel like you're not a professional.

ALSO, I'm sure you can hire someone on craigslist to give your work a second read for gramatical mistakes, if that's really a blind spot you care about.

But I worry, are you even trying to get better? It sounds like you've accepted your current skill level as a fixed balance that can't improve, when that's probably not the case.

I thought that was a pun!

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