Something you’ve ALWAYS wanted to know I’ll bet 😃
Yes, this is based on a recent personal experience. Want the details? Keep reading!
How to litter your manuscript with typos
- Create a character with a short name that could easily be found in many longer words — i.e., “Kat”
- Write 40,000 words of a story
- Realize that you prefer an alternate spelling — i.e., “Cat”
- Do a “Search All” and “Replace All” to change the spelling — i.e., “Kat” > “Cat”
- Write another 10,000 words
- Realize you prefer the first spelling
- Do a “Search All” and “Replace All” to change the spelling back — i.e., “Cat” > “Kat”
- Casually reread the story and realize you’ve created 218 typos — i.e., “sKatter”, “reloKated”, unsKathed”, “mediKations”
- Success!
This definitely just happened to me, and I spent twenty minutes using Ctrl+F to find all my ridiculously spelled words and fix them. Honestly not a big deal, but still a very silly thing…
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GREAT Aurora 😀
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Wow, yes,, been there, done it. There are so many different spelling for the name “Crayn”. And I have done all of them in my books. Hmm
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🤔😃😄
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LOL! Been there done that. 😀
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😄😄😄
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Funny, I thought it was just me 🙂 thank you for sharing.
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Welcome Gulara 😃
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It’s a nightmare … retrace their writings to change something! Worse if you write in different languages and with different accents (ç from French, ñ from Spanish, ë from the Nordic languages)… :-)c
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Hoo Boy – Now THAT is a challenge Claudine 😄😄😄
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In my last novel I only have italian, russian (but not in Cyrillic) and Irish… I survived… but now I have to translate all in english… and that’s the Real nightmare :-)c
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WOW, you don’t do things by half do you Claudine 😄😄😄
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I try… but I do have some good help too! Somehow I wish to transmit a kind of wisdom and hope, hidden inside the pages is passion and love mixed with the magic of buddhism which give us a reason to make good deeds. The law of cause-effect can make you deeply think about the reasons of our presence here… in effect I’m talking an universal language, don’t you think?
I wish you a lovely week :-)c
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