HUMAN ERROR IS SOMETHING I know a great deal about. Like that sentence which, were I following my grammar lessons, should read human error is something about which I know. My point? Perfection may be overrated. Accuracy, however, never is. And in-between lies a great deal of tension, especially when we are referring to common writing mistakes.
So, when this week’s newsletter went out referring to my husband as a “weekly communist”, as opposed to the regularly-scheduled writer that he is, my choices were to hang my head or howl with laughter. I chose the latter.
Ah, the typo. Ah, auto-correct. Ah, human weakness. I guess it could be worse. I could have referred to my husband as “weakly communist,” something that is hardly worth a mention, right?
Anyway, let me tell you this: You don’t have to make the mistakes that I do — in anything having to do with your writing, anyway. I’ve got help for all of them. I have a copyeditor you can hire. To find out more, contact me. I have online classes in all manners of learning how to write memoir, and very soon I will be offering a tutorial in my very-favorite topic of all, that thing that makes more writers drink gin straight from the bottle than any other aspect of doing what we do. Oh yeah. Coming soon: An all-you-need-to-know class in book structure.
Let me help you. Why make the mistakes I’ve made when you don’t have to?
