Of course, it's obvious now.

[Ray McCarthy]

I can't believe the vast number of 'of course' I have in my "The Apprentice's Talent."

Almost all are gone. A tiny few replaced by absolutely or certainly. The tiny number of survivors are in dialogue.

The other thing I realised is that if I thought of alternate names for an object I tended to list them in the MSS with 'or', instead of just picking one.

A huge number or changes apart from the nearly 300 I found just proof reading. I must be getting better at proofing as the last time I edited and proof read this MSS, I only found about 80 items. I've hardly edited it since. Almost all of the mistakes I've found have been in it for many versions. I added a 3rd party grammar plug in to LibreOffice which has found stray spaces after opening quotes or before closing ones (hard to see) and incorrect quotes (closing instead of opening etc.)

 

[prizzley]

Almost all of the mistakes I've found have been in it for many versions. I added a 3rd party grammar plug in to LibreOffice which has found stray spaces after opening quotes or before closing ones (hard to see) and incorrect quotes (closing instead of opening etc.)

To maximise finding my gaffe's I either print or send to kindle and then read aloud twice. I still miss some on the first read.
Pages for Mac highlights missing closing quotes, but ignores every lack of a space between sentences. So my final run through has to be after conversion to Word. Happy days!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

send to kindle and then read aloud twice

I don't give copies to Amazon, ever. I use the free Calibre, or MobiCreator to make an eBook and then USB transfer.

My Kindle can "read" out loud. Handy to test made up names. Mostly I proof on Kobo H2O Aura HD.

You can make annotation on kindle or kobo and read them on PC into a separate text file with source context and location.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Pages for Mac highlights missing closing quotes, but ignores every lack of a space between sentences.

Try LibreOffice Writer and some of the extra plugins.

 

[prizzley]

Thanks Ray. I'm investigating. Watch this space.