Making a living as a writer takes a thick skin, which I unfortunately don't have. However, rather than letting someone else's opinion of my writing make or ruin my day, I have decided to simply do the best I can and move on. There is just no pleasing everyone.

A humorous list of one woman's top pet peeves when it comes to bad grammar and poor writing generally. Like Lynne Truss (author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves), she's tempted to carry a vial of correction fluid everywhere she goes, to erase all those rogue apostrophes...

Bad punctuation, incorrect spelling and poor grammar create poor impressions. Appearances count! You may have important things to communicate but sloppy English will turn people off. Unfortunately, the English we speak is not the same as the English we write, consequently writing can seem like a journey into a foreign language but help is at hand.