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I was corrected on Lang-8 website that I should write 楽しみ！or 楽しみにしています！instead
of 楽しみに！. And I don't understand why.

Help please. 教えてくださいませんか。
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Why is 楽しみに！wrong?
If you're talking about yourself you can't really use it that way. Ending it
with に makes it sound like a kind of friendly request, like in お大事に. As such
it sounds like you're telling someone "楽しみにしてください" because of the に ending.
For yourself you just say 楽しみ or 楽しみにしています. Generally do not leave a に
dangling by itself at the end to refer to your own feelings.

I'll piggyback off of Chocolate's beautiful comment for extra clarity:

  * 楽しみです and 楽しみにしています represent the speaker's feelings as the subject of the sentence. So "I" am looking forward to something. This is shortened to 楽しみ in casual speech.
  * お楽しみに, on the other hand, is a shortened way of saying 楽しみにしていてください, addressed _to_ someone, a way of telling someone to look forward to something. It has an imperative feel.
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I'm fairly certain 楽しみに is fine and they corrected it to that because it's
just "the proper way" to say it. Japanese people do that a lot. If you say でしょ
they'll likely correct it with でしょう etc. even though Japanese people will use
でしょ more often than not.
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