Ugh, they're typically dozens of pages, and my printer is rubbish!Not a silver bullet, but a good tip none the less... go old-school and print it out
Heh, I like this.
Ha! It's a good tip though - can also help ensure that items of clothing are removed once each. Why yes, I have a story where a kind beta reader observed that a guy removed his shirt twice within a couple minutes. Only somehow in editing to remove that, he managed it again...
Where I live it's definitely cold enough for layers.
Windows and Apple both have screen reading accessibility features if your word processor doesn't have it.
There will always be errors--even after someone else has edited it; even if it was published through a first-rate mainstream publisher. The solution is to do the best scrub you can and not to worry about minor errors. There's a point of diminishing returns in messing with it a lot.
Nope. The mind wipe, yes. (Let it sit for at least a day before reviewing it), but I'm a professional editor with more than 160 mainstream publisher books edited and still, every time I reread something I've written, I find another error or two.
That's very true! We won't always be able to catch 100% of errors, but I noticed it myself - time helps. When I read my older stories, I see so many errors, I blush. Especially being non-English-native, as I slowly advance in learning English I see even more and blush even more, hahaha
I burst out laughing reading it
I wish Literotica had a quick editing procedure...
That sounds like one of those continuity errors that show up in movies. It's extremely difficult to edit all of those diverse pieces of footage that may have been filmed on different days or out of chronological order. Fortunately, film audiences usually don't catch the more subtle ones.
Professional publishing used to be more strict thirty years ago, but many think that standards have since slipped. It also depends of the content. When I worked at a place that did medical and scientific books, they were quite careful. Books for lawyers, where many of them went into looseleaf binders, were often rushed and had terrible quality. If the mistakes were bad enough, the publisher might issue yet a another, smaller "supplement" to be filed too. That's if the authors, all partners at big law firms, insisted upon it.
They slipped just in the years (from 1997 to 2017) that I worked with/in mainstream publishing houses. The standard number of manuscript reviews lost two rounds in that time. Something will be picked up with each round of review/edit, so when two are dispensed with, more errors will surely be left present. (Automation got better in those years, though, cutting down on mistakes made or introduced with repeated reviews.) A cost-effect determination was made of how many small errors could remain, with the understanding that there's no "prefect" copy possible.
True about the unnecessary corrections, but with this many writers (and one-bombing readers), you're inevitably going to get a cross-section of human dysfunctional behaviors. I suppose the site could limit the number of corrections per submission (a minimum of three typos each time?) but how would they enforce it? How would they even know what's been changed? They could demand that writers tell them in the notes to moderator comments, but many people would simply lie about it. That couldn't be confirmed either.
