Coaster2: Blog

Inevitably, errors have been slipping through despite Derek and my best efforts to spot them. Happily, my readers have been letting me know about them when they spot them and I'm fixing the base copy as I go. In the end, after all the story has been told and the errors identified, I will repost the entire story. Thanks to all of you eagle-eyed readers for finding the things we missed and letting us know.
Cheers,
Coaster2

Yes, I finally finished a new story and with the help of Derek in the final editing, I think it's presentable to my typical audience. I've been struggling to finish a number of attempts over the past months and it's a relief to get one completed. Who knows, it may lead to another!
Cheers,
Coaster2

I'll begin reposting Hardware and Harmony with what I hope are corrections to all the little errors I made along the way. I'd like to thank all those who wrote me and let me know of my goofs. I went through every one of them and made the corrections.

Thank you and my lesson has been learned. No more posting without an editor.

Cheers,

Coaster2

It's been pointed out that computers were in use much earlier than my current story (Hardware & Harmony)indicated. I'm usually reasonably careful about things like that since I remember when I bought my first desktop, and my first time borrowing the office "portable" ... if you could call it that.
Anyway, I made some adjustments to the timeline in the story as it was being written and didn't pick up on the fact that I'd shifted the years to well past when computers became more common in use. My error, but I don't have the energy to go back and rewrite the story to fix that. I hope you'll accept that it's one of those things that doesn't (I hope) really diminish the thrust of the story.
Someone else wrote me to let me know that my dating of the VW Beetle Nick bought was haywire. In fact, the original beetle (rear engine/air cooled)was produced in Mexico long after Wolfsburg ended production.
Life is getting more complicated every day!
Cheers, Coaster2

I should have expected this. I used "base" for "bass" when describing a musical instrument. Dumb! I wonder how many more of these kinds of errors you'll find. Don't hesitate to let me know. As soon as I've been told, I'll try and correct them.
Cheers,
Coaster2