Wait, that came out wrong. I mean, if I had any left to pull out....
I have been in a slump for a couple of weeks, since posing St. Luke and finishing the first draft of another story. That new one needs to marinate a while, until I can look it over again with fresh eyes.
Anyway, after getting a couple of emails from a new reader, about old mistakes in even older stories, I downloaded all of my tales in Kindle format to read through.
Man.... I suck! There are a LOT of errors in my oldest stories. I believe the error count has gone down as I have progressed.(Thanks to editors and proof-readers)
On to the point of this rant!
Everyone has pet peeves.
When I read a story someone else posts and come across certain errors, they make me pause and, if there are too many, put down the story and pick up another. One or two, okay, I get it, but too many just make me want to scream
Let me pick one out of my own story, one that would have made me think about walking away from someone else's story!
Peek vs Peak vs Pique. Yes, you guessed it.
I wrote, "... was a peak into the soul of..." and I hung my head in shame.
SHAME.
It is silly, really, to place such importance on what boils down to one little letter. But...what annoys me in someone else is completely and utterly unacceptable in myself.
It makes me realize that my smugly condescending, internal voice, is a hypocrite and that is not a comfortable realization.
Am I going to change? There is the true measure of a man, no? Will he recognize his own failings and correct them, be a better man?
Probably not. I just want to rant about it. ineffectually, in my blog.
Hush, you're not the boss of me.