Fixing as you go

Fixing as you go by Wen Spencer A question on file management triggered someone to comment that in their first draft, they don t worry about those little red and green lines under their words that indicate that things are spelled wrong or not correct... More

Fixing as you go by Wen Spencer A question on file management triggered someone to comment that in their first draft, they don t worry about those little red and green lines under their words that indicate that things are spelled wrong or not correct grammar. I posted the following words of caution that boil down to this: been there, done that -- bad idea. When I started to write, I didn t pay any attention to the little red and green lines. I just vomited out onto the page and figured I would come back to it. This ended up being a horrible mistake. First it makes you lazy. I wrote an entire novel this way and learned nothing about spelling and grammar. Second time through, I used the spell checker in this method. After seeing what it suggested (and checking with a dictionary that this was the word I wanted) I would close the window without clicking "yes" and try to spell the word correctly. If it said the word was right, I checked again to make sure it was still the correct w Less