Before, in another post, I mentioned that grammar is important. Well, its so important that if you have none it might just make the reader stop reading altogether. Periods are a part of grammar, and they are essential for a story. You might be thinking, “well yeah, obviously,”. However, so many times, I’ve went to an online writing site like Wattpad and have found several stories that do not have any periods in it what-so-ever. But even so, at the time, I tried to read it just to see if it was possible.
The result? It was incredibly difficult. To the point that I just stopped reading. My eyes hurt trying to read it. So, my advice to you as a writer (and it may seem silly) is that if you forget to put a period at the end of the sentence as your writing (or thought you did but didn’t) for the love god, please, go back and put it there.
Not only that, if you post the story on a site like Wattpad or Scribblehub and someone comments that you need a comma, a period, etc., and you agree then fix it. If one person saw that mistake, then so did several others. Granted, when posting a story online you can slack a bit on the rules but if you have a serious grammar error (mainly misspelling error) it might break the readers immersion.
Note, this applies to all stories in all genres.
