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...
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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
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