@ Devor. That's two jinxes I'm calling haha. What's up with that? You're a faster typist than I am and I tend to be really wordy, saying the same thing.
Strange! It's supposed to go to post #25 in this thread, but when I click it now, I don't get a URL at all, but text from Dragon's Egg. No, not deliberate!That link is either a bad copy-paste or a secret little Easter Egg cleverly posted to promote Dragon's Egg. Definitely the second.
My post was more to BWFoster and how I interpret his interpretation of the phrase, based in part on a common interpretation implied by the word "just," which I interpret to mean "barely" good enough..... I'll shut up now.
@ Devor. That's two jinxes I'm calling haha. What's up with that? You're a faster typist than I am and I tend to be really wordy, saying the same thing.
It is flat-out amazing what stupid shit will get past Grammarly and other checkers as far as typos and just weird stuff. My impersonation of the apps thinking goes thus: That's such a terrible error grrbl-gonk... Next!
My team cheats. One of us is a linguist and a grammarian who will read the entire manuscript out loud as our final editorial sweep. We still miss mistakes, but not many. Also, I married our grammarian so she can't escape.LOL. You need to ignore most, but it's still useful for some basic mistakes that you can't see because you're too familiar with your own ms.
Smart thinking A. E. Lowan on marrying your grammarian...
Another trick I've come across is to read your manuscript backwards (as in, start at the last sentence, then the sentence before that and so on). That way, you're not reading the story but the actual text. No idea if it works. My spelling in such that I don't rely on it too much anyway. I just pray that between my editor and the Word spell checker the novel gets to a decent quality.
Smart thinking A. E. Lowan on marrying your grammarian...
Another trick I've come across is to read your manuscript backwards (as in, start at the last sentence, then the sentence before that and so on). That way, you're not reading the story but the actual text. No idea if it works. My spelling in such that I don't rely on it too much anyway. I just pray that between my editor and the Word spell checker the novel gets to a decent quality.