The global Find & Replace function can be handy…but it can also lead to serious (and sometimes amusing) errors. The Nook edition of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace replaced every appearance of the word kindle with the word Nook, resulting in gems like this: As soon as she heard his voice a vivid glow Nookd in her face, … Read more
“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.” ~ John Ruskin
Our eyes and minds play tricks on us when we read our own writing. We “see” what we think we wrote, what we meant to write . . . not always what’s actually on the page or the screen. To catch errors such as missing words, try reading your work aloud. This forces you to … Read more
I’ve never used z-z-z-z to recommend a deletion, nor an infinity symbol to mark a passage as too long . . . but I have to confess, some of these hilarious editing and proofreading marks have occasionally been quite tempting! http://www.geist.com/comix