Proofreading Pains

[SummerMorning]

All day sitting behind a glowing little box, staring at red underlined words and little auto-correct options from word. All day wondering why proof-reading couldn't be easier, why the proof-reader couldn't get what I wrote...

This is truly the part I hate most. Well, nearly. Right after citing sources, that's truly annoying and boring as well...

I'm so blasted out of my skull that I really feel like doing something stupid just to wake myself up again. How do you guys cope with proof-reading?

 

[SummerMorning]

22 pages to go.

8 minutes to midnight.

Yay.

Not.

 

[SummerMorning]

19 pages.

1 minute past midnight.

 

[amicus]

Not sure if you are proof-reading your work or someone elses, I do both, from time to time.

Comes with the turf, my dear, I guess. my volume two, The First Chief, Sahjeed Deeda, has been crying out for a final edit and revision for nearly two months now and I just can't bring it up and face the 336 pages, sighs, and I have the cover art to finish.

Sounds like you are making progress, though, and thas a good thing.

Much luck!


amicus...

 

[SummerMorning]

Not sure if you are proof-reading your work or someone elses, I do both, from time to time.

Comes with the turf, my dear, I guess. my volume two, The First Chief, Sahjeed Deeda, has been crying out for a final edit and revision for nearly two months now and I just can't bring it up and face the 336 pages, sighs, and I have the cover art to finish.

Sounds like you are making progress, though, and thas a good thing.

Much luck!


amicus...

Blech... my bachelor's thesis. Came back from being proof-read and now I'm rereading the whole thing for the third time or so.

After months sitting with this text and groaning over it this last stretch is a real back-breaker. But today I finish, if my eyes pop out, I finish... because damn-all, I can't stand it any more.

 

[amicus]

Will be good to get it out of your way. Helped my daughter wade through her last examinations for a psyche degree a year or so ago.

Happy to be far far away from college exams of any kind. smiles


amicus...

 

[SummerMorning]

I would have nothing against exams whatsoever - if I felt they represented an objective means of evaluating knowledge and skill. Alas, they far too often do not.

8 pages to go.

 

[SummerMorning]

I would have nothing against exams whatsoever - if I felt they represented an objective means of evaluating knowledge and skill. Alas, they far too often do not.

8 pages to go.

finished.

ugh. my eyes.

big like a frog's.

 

[minsue]

finished.

ugh. my eyes.

big like a frog's.

Congrats

Now give those poor eyes a rest and get the hell away from the computer screen.

 

[BlackShanglan]

How do you guys cope with proof-reading?

I only do it if I quite love the story, the author, or both.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I turn off the damned grammar checker. That's the first thing I do.

I usually try to do my proofing during my edits, so by the ime I'm done editing, it's pretty much proofed. I send it through the spell-checker one more time, then do a search & replace for double periods.

There are always a few errors that get through. I just hope that they're nothing really egregious.

 

[SummerMorning]

I turn off the damned grammar checker. That's the first thing I do.

I usually try to do my proofing during my edits, so by the ime I'm done editing, it's pretty much proofed. I send it through the spell-checker one more time, then do a search & replace for double periods.

There are always a few errors that get through. I just hope that they're nothing really egregious.

Mhm. The word spell-checker is dreadful. And there's nothing worse for inspiration than those wiggly red underlines.