This is a post about the importance of editing, editing and re-editing your writing. The best tip I can give you is to print out each draft, go to a quiet place and read it out loud. Your mouth will catch mistakes your mind didn't and the other way around.
Yesterday, I wrote a story for the newspaper about the recent sale of a local inn. See if you can catch the mistake I made in draft one:
"The couple found it serendipitous and sweet that each harbored a deep-seeded desire to one day own an inn."
Now check this out.
If I hadn't followed my own advice I wouldn't have caught that error and it would have ended up in the newspaper and I would have looked like a giant asshole. And no, my editor did not catch it. That puppy was well on its way to the copy desk before I noticed the mistake and made the change.
Now get out there and make that change!
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2 comments:
A hahahaha
I just made a boo boo with segue and seguway. It only ran in a wittle old local rag, but still.
argh!
Signed,
Eileen Dover
Arg is right Ms. Dover. Next time, let someone else's eyes peruse your work.
Yours,
Marsha Mallow
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