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bedeviled by typos

Posted in proofreading, writing, tagged , , on July 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »

My daughter read my short story - the one I finished last Thursday and carefully proofread before submitting – and she found a typo. Just one. Problem is, it’s the fifth word of the story.  

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a proofreader who proofreads herself…

Posted in proofreading, submission, writing, tagged , , , on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

… has a fool for an author. Isn’t that what they say?
On account of this I’m writing a second post today.
New story, written, finished, submitted. That’s SUB-MIT-TED, past tense. Gone, via e-mail to an editor. I swear, last night it looked perfect. Now, looking at it again I see three typos.
Instead of anyway, I have [...]

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evaluating your own work

Posted in proofreading, writing, tagged , , , on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Editing and proofreading your own work can be hard. If you’re like me, then you see your words on the screen or on paper the way you intended to write them, and you can’t easily see the mistakes. Which means you can’t fix them.
What can be even harder is judging the literary merits of the story. Is is interesting, suspenseful, engaging? Is it original? Does [...]

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