I recently had an e-mail via the SOL system that informed me I had misspelt a word in one of my stories. Actually I had hit the wrong key on the key board -- K instead of L. It’s not that I have particularly fat or podgy fingers but I am blessed with rather dodgy eyesight and yes I should have found and corrected the error before posting the story.
The story in question, Demon and Demeanour; Book 4 of Poacher’s Progress, has over 77,000 words,-- 77,804 to be exact.
I replied to the e mail with Captain Mainwaring’s standard response.
It was only this morning,, as I wrestled with my wip, that a thought came to me. 77804 words and all a reader gets from the story is a misspelt word.
‘Have I been wasting my time with this writing lark?’ I asked myself.
‘Too bloody right you have,‘ I answered my self.
Sod this for a game of soldiers.
Jack Green