Seppling Erors

The, shall we say, climax of Mind + Body has just been written and posted. I'm not sure if "climax" is the proper word (not just because it makes me think of the careful wording of "health" magazine articles), but it's the "big thing that explains a lot of stuff and happens right before the very end and just might make you say wow" and if that isn't what a climax is (climax makes me think gigantic fight scene or somebody having to jump over something scary or the good guy pressing a button that makes the bad guy blow up just after saying something ridiculous like, "don't lose your head" or "get off my plane".

I just looked up climax, and it's apparently what I thought in the first place. So, yes, I just wrote & posted the climax. A meticulously orchestrated series of very small events that I have been driving myself crazy with for the past six months.

Anyway, the thing I wanted to discuss when I wrote the title of this post is the spelling/wording/grammar corrections that some people have been posting in the comments for stuff I write: I like them, and thank you.

When I write these things, by the time I get to the end I'm usually so sick of them that I just want to post them, be done with them, and go walk around or eat some gummy bears. I often do a cursory spelling check, but I don't proofread right after. After a few hours I'll typically come back and read through it, but when people catch errors before that and point them out it makes my life easier.

Another problems comes from the fact that I use Google Docs (an online word processor) to write them, because Google Docs automatically saves the work, as I type it, to their servers. So, if I were in the middle of writing something and my computer exploded I wont be losing any work like I would with Word (I'd just be losing a computer). There is some weird bug with Google Docs, however, that sometimes when I copy my text from it and paste it into something else (like Blogger), some of the spaces mysteriously disappear, turning "my car" into "mycar". When two unintended words are joined that make a real word, like "to day" turning into "today", spell-check doesn't catch that and neither do I.

So don't feel like you're embarrassing me by pointing out the mistakes. I consider anything posted there to be a "rough draft" anyway, just something I wrote in a hurry and wanted to get out of my brain as fast as possible.

Depending on how I work this out, there are either one or two (or three or four, I suppose) more entries/chapters before the story (this part of the story, anyway) is over. Once I have it done I'm going to start working on polishing it and then (and only then) trying to get it published. Between those two steps I'll have an announcement for how you can get a copy and join an elite club before I even start trying to get it published. Before all of those steps, I'll be taking feedback as to what people think/thought of it so I'll know where I am.

And, for the record: yes, it does feel nice to have it all out of my head at last.