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Spelling
Repeat after HMG: Spelling counts.
It does, too. Incorrect spelling makes reading your story more difficult. It also gives the impression that you don't care enough about your writing to do the most rudimentary checking. If you don't care about your story, why should your readers?
Spellcheck. Make corrections. Spellcheck again. Then read the story to find all those words the spellchecker didn't catch. The spellchecker doesn't know the difference between "there," "they're," and "their," but you do, right? Use a dictionary. When you're done, have someone beta read for you. Someone who knows at least as much as you do about spelling. Okay? Good.