It's the sixth day of Advent Calendar
series and it's been 'editing day' for me ever since I got home.
I'm not going to lie, it's been
tedious.
I had to stop myself from writing
various plotbunnies, because that would make me procrastinate and not
go back to editing.
Thankfully, there are a few helpful things that I've found that makes editing easier.
It's a long checklist and I like it for
being so thorough and educational. It's easy to forget the basic
rules of grammar sometimes.
An online editor. Just copy bits of
your writing (it only allows 1000 words at a time) and be astounded by the amount of stuff (especially the little errors) this thing picks up. It's good for catching things you'd otherwise miss.
I may or may not have mentioned this
bit of software before. But this is a text to speech software and
it's been a real help for me. Having your work read out to you,
helps you pick up errors or odd sounding bits that you would have
missed with plain old reading.
Also, the way the voices mess
up non-english words will make you giggle. And that's a good way to
deal with the monotony of editing.
Okay, I'm going to go back to editing
now. Wish me luck in staying focussed.
Polar
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