Getting it down - in whatever state

[Toby Frost]

I have to correct spelling mistakes as I type them, otherwise I just find it really irritating. I seem to have a few days every month where, inexplicably, I just can't type without missing half the keys.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

I have to correct spelling mistakes as I type them, otherwise I just find it really irritating. I seem to have a few days every month where, inexplicably, I just can't type without missing half the keys.

I’m so glad to hear you say that! Sometimes I wonder if my fingers have been possessed by a dyslexic ghost.

 

[Ursa major]

Sometimes I wonder if my fingers have been possessed by a dyslexic ghost.

It's either that or those ghosts are haunting every keyboard I've ever touched.

 

[Wayne Mack]

The typos are not me. It's the computer, I swear. It's the computer.

 

[sknox]

>The typos are not me. It's the computer, I swear. It's the computer.
To which my merciless grad prof would have said: ok fine; then you must credit "computer" as co-author. (back in the day he said "typewriter" but the message was the same)
All joking aside, it really was a good piece of writing advice (history, at the grad level anyway, is an excellent teacher of good writing)

 

[Ursa major]

I'm pondering whether or not to change the title of the thread to

Getting it down - in whatever state it's in​

just in case someone thinks, based on the current title, the thread is about the state of the writer (and then starts trying to guess what the whole title might mean...).

​

 

[Dan Jones]

I have to correct spelling mistakes as I type them, otherwise I just find it really irritating. I seem to have a few days every month where, inexplicably, I just can't type without missing half the keys.

I think I correct my typos as I go so I'm left with a clean manuscript, and then I look back at the finished product and marvel at just how many clunking bloopers managed to wriggle through the net. Also, I've learned never to use spellcheck as it misses quite a lot; best just to do an old fashioned line-edit.

 

[Steve Harrison]

My first novel went through several rounds with the publisher's editor and proofreader, after I had corrected 'all' the errors and typos before submission. They found lots more stuff on that journey, of course, and we were good to go. However, the editor suggested the three of us give a final close read on the eve of sign-off with the printer and to the horror of all of us, we found another dozen errors hiding in plain sight!

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

I think I correct my typos as I go so I'm left with a clean manuscript, and then I look back at the finished product and marvel at just how many clunking bloopers managed to wriggle through the net. Also, I've learned never to use spellcheck as it misses quite a lot; best just to do an old fashioned line-edit.

Yes! This. I’m all smug* at the end, thinking I’ve picked up all the typos etc, then I read it through and groan.

*Not saying you’re smug, just me...