While I'll agree with Nephy's statement on principle, I'd like to strongly suggest to our 'freshmen' authors that they not forget the technical aspect of writing entirely.
Nothing irritates me more than to see twenty or so chapters of a story in eFiction, posted over a three or four month period, where the twentieth chapter has just as many grammatical errors as the first chapter. And the author notes continually state "I've not edited, or even bothered to proofread, let alone do a basic run through spellchecker, but I expect you to heap praise on my awesome writing anyway". Okay