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Oh man, I'm rewatching the first season of Private Practice and I'm on the 8th episode right now (out of the nine in the first season). Damn, I think Addison just told us how she slipped into bed with Mark... She says it's the long hard days that make her slip and make bad mistakes, that it's those days that she needs something, someone with her... Tell me that doesn't scream Mark to you.

I don't know if any of the authors really used this before... I generally avoid any and all instances of Mark or Maddison in my Addek fics so I might have missed it all entirely but damn, I'm starting to get a little more insight into Addison and I love that. So far, we haven't really gotten any personal details about Addison so anything makes me happy. Hopefully this week's episode of GA will give us more insight into all the characters, but into Addison most of all because damn it, I really love Addison. If I have to sit through yucky MerDer, I want to have something good about Addison to come out of it as well.

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Is it wrong that I mentally correct the fanfics I read? Sometimes I see little mistakes in the text and since I tend to obsess and have that obsession ruin a story for me, I've lately taken to just mentally correcting the mistakes... It's usually little things like rewording or rearranging a sentence, replacing a word that they misused so I would get a better flow. Is that such a bad thing though? In a way, it makes the story seem better than it should be but in another, I'm still conscious of the fact that there are mistakes and that I have to go to such lengths to enjoy a story.

In the past, I've thought about saving stories on to my harddrive and going in and actually correcting every mistake that I saw before I started reading a story from the beginning with my corrections. And I'll admit it, I've actually done it once but I didn't actually correct the story. Rather, the story had some problematic formatting issues so I went and made it a lot easier to read. After that, I felt immensely guilty because it feels so very wrong to fix someone else's story without their permission, even if it's just a formatting issue.... So I never did it again. But damn, if I don't still have the urges to go to town on some stories....

I guess what I really, really want is for people to just go and get a beta reader already. Not even a great beta reader, just one to catch all the little typos, spelling mistakes, simple grammar problems... Is that really so much to ask? If you invest time in a story, you might as well invest a little more time to make it an awesome story.