Im sure everyone has had at least one, you know when you forget something in beta, or do something daft. My last one was consistently misspelling Alistair as Alastair in a Dragon Age fanfic. I have to repost the corrected version tomorrow. So what was your last one?

i've had plenty! one of my resent things was in my Naruto story. the countries i have were switched around and i have had a few things pointed out to me. one was someone telling me that Kushina was from the Whirlpool country not the whirlpool village that i had placed in the waterfall country. another is ages, and summons i had a few mistakes with.

i never went deep enough into my research and knowledge apparently, or so i was strongly told. well i'll get it fixed and posted very soon! ^_^

Re-reading old stories I've written and seeing glaringly obvious plot holes is always a facepalm moment for me.

In my Pokémon fic, I had Jessie use Arbok and I realised that she released him. But a few types later and Arbok morphed into Seviper. Still a terrible facepalm moment though.

On my Invasion fic, I went through a whole fight scene, and then realised one of the characters had just been standing there watching everyone else, cos I'd forgoten about them. Bad facepalm moment.

Everything. Seriously, if there's a mistake I facepalm a LOT.
-facepalms-

Reading my novel outline and realising that whilst I'd written about 400 years worth o backstory for the places and characters, I had no idea how it was going to end.

Re-reading my Yu-Gi-Oh stories, to see that I keep spelling 'blonde' the feminine way instead of the masculine way 'blond' along with feminine 'brunette' instead of the masculine 'brunet' I find I'm annoyed with that. And silly little grammar mistakes! are my face palm moments =\

Oh, my biggest facpalm: I wrote a story called Project Remember: Secrets. But instead of writing secrets I wrote secretes. It's double-y embarrassing, because someone had to point it out to me.

God, it sounds like some parody porno. XD

In one of my fics the character rushed off to save this guy when she didn't actually know where he was -_-' Epic facepalm moment XD Luckily I noticed before anyone could review pointing out my epic plothole...

@Daydreamer-Of-The-Unknown

Ugh, I have the same problem -_-; But I'm too lazy to go back and fix all of them...plus Malik's pretty feminine anyway, so maybe he can be an exception to the rule :P

To answer the topic - stupid grammar mistakes/mispellings that I'm going to blame on my STUPID LAPTOP'S OVERSENSITIVE TOUCHPAD AND UNDERSENSITIVE KEYBOARD.

@sugarpuff - Lmao, I agree about feminine Malik just by the sort of clothes he wears aha!

But I write about Seto Kaiba and Katsuya Jounouchi, although Katsuya can be feminine, re-reading all my stories and noticing more often than not that I've been writing feminine because I am a girl just annoys me, it annoys me even more that I re-read over the stories before actually posting and I STILL make the mistakes... aah! lol!

...What I was really annoyed with is that in a certain story I got pointed out how bad my spelling and grammar was... ahh so embarrassed! >.<

I agree about the sensitivity of the laptop aha! I sometimes have the same problem. Meh! Stupid thing!

x Casondrah Kiku x

When I posted a fic that had a radio interview in it, and the radio interview bit was missing...

Despite the fact that I had typed it, I couldn't find it anywhere on the site. I had to remove and re-post.

I Facedesked...which hurt. I wear glasses XD

Realising 6000 words into a new chapter that I had completely screwed up the setting, the time period, and therefore the entire dialogue of the scene. It involved deleting 4000 words out of 6000ish...

Cue repeated head-desking from me.

>To answer the topic - stupid grammar mistakes/mispellings that I'm going to blame on my STUPID LAPTOP'S OVERSENSITIVE TOUCHPAD AND UNDERSENSITIVE KEYBOARD.

I had the exact same problem so I purchased a usb keyboard, which at least catches up most of my speed writing.
it is a great solution that also allows you to be at the right distance from the screen.

Worst mistake ever? Giving a character a really awful surname. I couldn't think of a name for Fang from Maximum Ride, so I gave up (it was 3am) and put Ganf. FAIL. My friend never let me forget it..

I absolutely hate coming up with surnames, I always have to get my friends to help, otherwise all my characters end up with the surname 'Smith' or something equally as common. (Not that Smith is a bad surname...)

Well, usually I can find something that works, but I want to give my characters a surname that's not too common or too unusual. Hence the reason why naming characters takes me forever. Sometimes I steal the names of people I know in real life, but sometimes that's just too weird.

@RayRay: Ouch. Just OUCH. (And not at the head-desking.)

If it gets to that point for me, I give up and start again the next day.... or month, whenever I feel brave enough to attempt writing again XD

And I hate coming up with names. Sometimes, choosing the common name is just best- it makes characters easier to relate to :)

no five barreled names for me ("Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way" ;D)

xD Ebony a.k.a Enoby a.k.a Enony a.k.a Eboby a.k.a Egogy?

@ChildishJade

My surname is Smith! ;)

I know its only small, but when I forget my capital letters. Usually, if I do make a mistake its a very small one, not many people seem to notice it but it stil bugs me!

It does disturb me a tiny bit, though lately I've had these urges to write it, partly because I started a fic to do with someone with a kid in the future and would have REALLY wanted it to have been with the person I usually pair them with...it's Boy/Boy so it doesn't work unless I walked the Mpreg route. Maybe...just maybe as a little crackfic.

ACK wrong thread D:

I suck at surnames too. Actually, most of the time I steal/ play on surnames from the people I know. ;P

Omg where do I start. I always forget that i'm writing in someones p.o.v and realise like a months later and repost it.

Reading stuff I wrote years ago makes me cringe!

@EvilPumpkin: Thats the one! The one and only... XD (or at least, I hope so...)

I've had many in my time XD. I believe my recent, though I've kept it there, is making Bison a total uke in one of my fics and have him quite literally moan Vega's name. When repeated back to me, resulted in me, quite painfully, headdesking in embarrassment.

For some reason I can give my characters names easy. I don't like my friends reading my fanfics because one of them likes to give them accents that make me want to go bash my head against the wall until I'm unconscious!!!

I replyed to a reviewer in Dutch. I live in the Netherlands so...

I replyed to a reviewer in Dutch. I live in the Netherlands so...

I replyed to a reviewer in Dutch. I live in the Netherlands so...

GAH.... so many things make me facepalm!

• Beta reading through a fic 5 times and publishing it, and THEN noticing a mistake!!!!
• Spelling character names wrong,
• Incontinuity,
• Failing to come up with decent character names,
• Missing capital letters, or speech marks,
• Switching from 3rd person to 1st half way through a fic - I've done this soooo many times - it's sooo annoying!!!!
• Making mistakes in a review so the author has to reply to ask me what the hell I'm on about,

The list could go on forever.............
I really shouldn't write! It makes me soooooooo ANGRY when I make mistakes! I think I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist!
>>13 and facepalming/headdesking with glasses is so painful! I have taken to slapping the back of my hand instead - still hurts but not as much!!
Sorry for the long ramble! :)

Wow bullet points! I didn't know you could do that, I just put hyphens!! :D COOL!! Sorry again!

Wow bullet points! I didn't know you could do that, I just put hyphens!! :D COOL!! Sorry again!

OMG double post! That drives me soo crazy - hugest facepalm ever!

Ok I will shut up now. I promise. I'm slightly hyper on 7 cups of coffee! : )

My old stories. Especially the one involving the Mary Sue character Ryu.

>>38 Did I say one? I meant like five of them, all in the same series.

@Jodie: same here. At least that indicates improvement, though.

For me? Continuity errors, mostly. Or research errors - I made a couple of small ones recently in my current Final Fantasy VII fic. I thought golden chocobos could fly, and they can - just in a different Final Fantasy title. A couple of reviewers pointed that one out, and so now I get to beg forgiveness before the next chapter and ask that everyone overlook my error, as I did make it an important bit in some of the main character's choices and development.

When I start writing a story and get really into it then half way through I realize I don't know how I want it to end. And when I FINALLY do know how I want it to end, it always contradicts the beginning of the story. Oh god, so many facepalms for that one :P

>>41: Word.

Yeah. Sit down. This might take a little while.

• I tend to mess up the gender of the people in question sometimes(i.e. 'she was going to ask her' when 'her' actually refers to a boy). It's really annoying. Usually, I manage to filter it out, but I occasionally miss a few.
• Reading back stories I've written a long time ago, just like KatonRyu; I once wrote multiple-chaptered Harry Potter fanfiction about Dumbledore's youth(note this was before book seven came out) and I read it a while ago again and hated myself a little more for writing such horrible work. My writing has fortunately improved since.
• Usually, I think of how a character should look - and act -like while I'm writing the story in question. Then, I write it down. Sometimes, however, I forget I had already written down how a character should be and do it all over again; it always contradicts the first one. The main character in one of my stories went in one chapter from a open, popular guy with lots of friends to a shy guy who's got trouble expressing himself. Not because his character changed, but because I forgot I was originally planning to make him open and popular. Recently, this happened with a character who turned from ginger to blonde in three lines. I corrected the mistake in time this time, though.
• Writing a scene late in the evening, when I'm tired and need a plot device, and then coming back to look at it in the morning doesn't really improve my confidence either. Happened once, hopefully never again.
• Grammar. English is not my mother language, so some mistakes are excusable. However, I can't find an excuse for not realizing 'sais' isn't a word; it should be spelled 'says'.

somewhere in the English language "Dean" is a word. not a name. a word. so every time that i'm working on my Supernatural stories i forget to capitalize it and word doesn't fix it for me like it does for Sam and Bobby. so then i post it and read back through it and none of the Dean's (unless they're at the beginning of a sentence) are capatalized.

44- Dean, as in the dean of a college. That's where it's a word in the English language. Just in case you were wondering...

I once wrote a character as having a southern drawl then about 4 chapters later wrote that she had a cajun accent. Luckily caught it before anyone noticed. Serious facepalm moment haha

When writing a HP fic, I accidentally wrote 'Poularde' (i.e. some kind of big chicken) instead of Poudlard (Hogwarts). I facepalmed but left it anyway because... well, I sort of like it.

Or when I was working on my original: I was writing in English and in the middle of a dialogue, went on in French. Took me two pages to actually notice.

omg that would be everyday. Whether im editign my old stories and finding new fics to read, their (and my) amateurish works would sometimes make me want to slap the closest thing to me. and then when i get bored, i would look at the stories in my favorites and i wuld be all, "Why in the world did i favorite this?!"

So those are my facepalm moments.

I magically transported two characters from the bathroom to the bedroom while a make out session when I had no intention of them being in the bedroom in the first place.

Man, my mind was in the gutter. I had to re-write a whole page and a half for that scene.

A few others:
-he keeps being called a she randomly
-Accidently switching characters names
-Somehow mispeling wrap and putting 'rape' (seriously I don't know how THAT happened)

I don't know what else but I'm sure I had more...bad memory.

It may sound rather minor, but I was facepalming over muddling the Whale with the Condor yesterday. It's a pretty major part in this one character's development, though, and forgetting that... it's like forgetting why he gained such plot importance.

I frequently end up facepalming when my characters rewrite scenes, too. There's one scene I've been struggling with for a month, and the other day, Aki just suggested that I reorder events, get the two characters who aren't necessary out of the room before the next bit became relevant.

It's just, why can't it make sense before I get so hopelessly lost?

I wrote a fanfic with some Welsh characters and received complaints that they were too obscure and nobody knew who they were. So I wrote a prequal (much better than the original story imo) which gave their origins.

Only on later rereading, long after it was posted, did I realise I had contradicted several backstory points I had set up in the original story.