Stupid typos!

[oggbashan]

My eyesight has deteriorated this year and I have double vision most of the time. When at my computer I wear an eye patch on my left eye but I sometimes type a key to the left or right of where I should be.

I have spell check on permanently, although rgw instead of the is easy to spot.

 

[Jada59]

My eyesight has deteriorated this year and I have double vision most of the time. When at my computer I wear an eye patch on my left eye but I sometimes type a key to the left or right of where I should be.

I have spell check on permanently, although rgw instead of the is easy to spot.

I get the double vision sometimes. I never know how my eyes will be. Went through a period of time when I couldn't read my cell phone without some very light reading glasses. Currently can read it just fine!

 

[LexxRuthless]

I have a tendency to make mistakes and don't always catch them despite reading over a story many times. And my spell checker doesn't always catch them as it might be that I left out a word, used the wrong word or the right word, wrong spelling. Examples are "plane" when I meant to use "plain" and "coming" instead of "cumming". Seems each of my stories has at least one such. I know there is a way to correct this after the story is published but it seems like it would be a hassle just to change one word.

Does anyone else deal with this? If so, how do you deal with it? Yesterday I read the story out loud, submitted it, then noticed the mistake at the end as I was closing the Word document. Help! Thanks!

Don't agonize over it. The readers here appreciate your efforts and really don't expect perfection from us. Once you've submitted your story you have a small window that you can still fix errors like that one word you mentioned. After that, just let it go.

I know it's tough to do, but think of this: The time you spend worrying about those minor mistakes is time you could be spending writing your best story yet.

 

[EdEc]

Grammarly.com is free and corrects spelling and grammar. I've been using for a year and I've recommended it to friends who failed to download it and their written words are still terrible.

 

[EdEc]

TRick I usez to reDuse Typo Errors.

1. Get up and take a walk or a swim, then comes back to the edit.
2. Print you story out to edit it with a pencil.
3. Get someone you know to proff read it.
4. Sleep on it, laterally.
5. Give up and delete whole documint after you print copy and mail it to youreslf, that way you have a severzl say break.
6. Do not edit while drink.

I appreciate humor. Well done.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

Grammarly.com is free and corrects spelling and grammar. I've been using for a year and I've recommended it to friends who failed to download it and their written words are still terrible.

Grammarly really is a very helpful tool, as long as you don't blindly follow all of its suggestions. At the end of the day it's still a computer program, and language is very complicated. Not all of its suggestions are correct, so I always verify that it's interpreting my writing the way I intended. And even then you can still disagree with it, but it's great at letting you know which areas of your writing need some double-checking.

 

[Hypoxia]

"It is a narrow minded person who thinks there is only one way to spell a word."
--Harry Oliver

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Don't sweat the occasional typo. Even the best spel cheker screws up.

I remember reading about a pair of British publishers in the 1800's that had a bet about whether it is possible to publish a moderately sized book without errors. After working on it for a much longer than normal time the publisher tasked with creating the book printed it and presented it to his friend. A minute later he handed the other publisher a one pound note (the sum agreed upon as the wager). He had misspelled his name on the title page.

I tried to find the reference, but apparently my search-fu is not the best tonight. All I kept getting was page after page of how to publish (or self-publish) books.

James

 

[Hypoxia]

Don't sweat the occasional typo. Even the best spel cheker screws up.

Everything will be spelled right when I get my brain-computer interface implant and conquer the InterWebz. I'll make sure a certain name is rendered as Fuckerberg. And I'll banish contractions.

[/me prepares to insert the Brainiac links -- ZAP!]

Okey, itz alll bedder noww.

(My browser only flags a few of those as misspellings. See, it works!)
_____

Somewhere recently I saw an article on how typos have changed the world, started or stopped wars, crashed Martian landers, re-aimed nukes, broken global finances, and diverted morality. (A famous bible edition included a commandment like, "Thou shalt fornicate," omitting the NOT.) Misspelling our smut ranks rather low on that scoreboard.

 

[eroticstoryspinner]

My usual fault is names. When I start a story I use vanilla names until the character gets established in my mind and takes on a personality. Then I change the name to fit the character but despite Word's Find/Replace I might miss some particularly with 's at the end, or slightly misspelt.

Glad to know that I am not the only one. As for the more general question waiting a day or tow and rereading and using a beta reader/editor are all good ideas. I can see the difference in my own writing.

Reading your writing out loud can sometimes catch errors and actually can improve your story.

 

[SimonDoom]

I sympathize. I do this too. I'm a pretty good speller, but that doesn't keep me from making mistakes as I type. I know the difference between their, there, and they're, but when I type I will sometimes wrongly put one in place of the other. It's not always the sort of thing that grammar checkers and spell checkers will catch. I suggest trying to be very careful as you write the draft, and then to give at least two careful proofs to the draft before publication. If you can get someone to edit it, so much the better.

The good news is that if you do this much but still make a few mistakes, Literotica readers probably will not care. The readers are are not overly picky about spelling and punctuation. I see stories with atrocious spelling and punctuation that still do well here. So, don't worry about it too much.