The scattered thoughts of short story writer Sandra Seamans
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Impotence of Editing by Peggy Christie
There's a funny tongue-in-cheek essay about editing your own work over at The Horror Tree. You can check it out here. Along with the fun is a very serious look at being a professional writer.
Thanks, Sandra! That's a good piece. I've paid money for self-published stories that were painfully in need of proofreading. With my own work, I've found I can miss an error six times, then my girlfriend will spot it.
Yeah, it's so strange that a writer can read the same mistake over and over and never see it. I think in our mind's eye we're seeing what we intended to write and not what actually hit the page :)
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Thanks, Sandra! That's a good piece. I've paid money for self-published stories that were painfully in need of proofreading. With my own work, I've found I can miss an error six times, then my girlfriend will spot it.
Yeah, it's so strange that a writer can read the same mistake over and over and never see it. I think in our mind's eye we're seeing what we intended to write and not what actually hit the page :)
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