Thank God for editors!

[vgrey]

It never fails. Whenever I think that I've got a piece perfect, my editor always spots an incredibly embarrassing mistake almost right away.

I'm curious, what is the worst mistake that an editor has saved you from making?

 

[sr71plt]

I had a key character doing a key something or other in like chapter twenty of a mainstream mystery--although the editor pointed out that I'd killed that character off in like chapter five.

That and the occasional "sex" written for "six" and "cunt" for "can't" in foreign policy analysis pieces going to the White House.

 

[slyc_willie]

It never fails. Whenever I think that I've got a piece perfect, my editor always spots an incredibly embarrassing mistake almost right away.

I'm curious, what is the worst mistake that an editor has saved you from making?

I wish I'd sent my thus far one and only offering to the Mature category to an editor before posting it. He or she would have caught the magical transformation of a VW Beetle into a Mercedes coupe.

I had a key character doing a key something or other in like chapter twenty of a mainstream mystery--although the editor pointed out that I'd killed that character off in like chapter five.

That and the occasional "sex" written for "six" and "cunt" for "can't" in foreign policy analysis pieces going to the White House.

Depending on the administration, it may not have made much a of a difference.

 

[CarolinaPeach]

It never fails. Whenever I think that I've got a piece perfect, my editor always spots an incredibly embarrassing mistake almost right away.

I'm curious, what is the worst mistake that an editor has saved you from making?

I'm not sure this is the worst mistake my editor saved me from, but a big glaring one was my misunderstanding of how a hymen works. I figured, I had one, I know all about them. Then I did some research and discovered I was quite wrong on several points. Embarrassing, but better my editor to find it than a reader point it out.

God bless our editors. I have had several good ones through the volunteer editor program here.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I'm not sure this is the worst mistake my editor saved me from, but a big glaring one was my misunderstanding of how a hymen works. I figured, I had one, I know all about them. Then I did some research and discovered I was quite wrong on several points. Embarrassing, but better my editor to find it than a reader point it out.

God bless our editors. I have had several good ones through the volunteer editor program here.

Not the first, but it's usually guys that think the hymen is north of the cervix and a barrier of steel. Horse riding and tampons destroy that myth.

 

[TxRad]

My biggest mistake and neither of us caught it. A digital camera in the mid 70's.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My biggest mistake and neither of us caught it. A digital camera in the mid 70's.

I catch shit like that all the time. In TITANIC they used a Mercury Dime that wasn't in circulation till 1916. Someone tried to sell me a signed copy of DRACULA; it looked good, too! Only one lil problem with it, Bram Stoker died a couple of years before this American edition was printed.

 

[lovecraft68]

One of those little auto corrects slipped past me and I had someone grabbing the woman "around her waste"

I also screwed up and instead of foot fetish came up with fott fetish which is not the correct spelling of fart but would be pronounced the same especially here in RI where we never really pronounce R. like farm would be said Fahm

sadly I would not be surprised if some people have a fart fetish, but my character was not supposed to have one.