Oyvey... I've read many released fiction books with spelling errors
That's the responsibility of editors, not the writers.
I'm saying Twilight is popular because people don't care. Hence, the apathy statement.
Twilight is popular because it strikes a resonant chord with its target audience (teen girls and twi-moms) and was marketed well. Romance is (and has been) the best selling fiction genre, and Twilight gives its readers what they want.
Is it a good book? I don't think so. But literary quality is not, and never has been, a factor in marketability. How well something is written is not the deciding factor in how well it's going to sell.
Twilight fans aren't apathetic, though. They're fanatical. Any writer would die to get fans HALF as invested in their books, and I gotta tell you, it ain't because Stephanie Meyer can spell.
It's because the books resonate with something in the readership. What that is, I can't tell you, because I'm not the target market, but if you want to sell mass quantities of a genre fiction book, you need to target your audience with the resonance that speaks with them.
(I assume you mean a first draft because I've never heard pre-edit manuscript in my fucking life)
I didn't want to specify first draft because I don't know how many drafts you go through before you give it to an editor. Could be the first. Could be the fifth. Any version of the manuscript prior to professional editing.
I was talking about something out there in the world people would read.
Books that have already been edited, and thus have had an editor correct any minor spelling errors.
How do you write without knowing how to spell?
It's surprisingly easy.