the easiest way to find a mistake in something you wrote is to send it to someone to have them look at it and then look at it again while waiting for them to respond
tabletop rpg obsessed, particularly lancer, icon, cain, the treacherous turn, eclipse phase, and pathfinder 2e. also a fan of the elder scrolls and star wars, an avid gamer and reader of webcomics, and when my brain cooperates, a hobbyist writer.
the urge to share my creations versus the horrifying ordeal of being perceived. fight of the millennium. anyway posts about my ocs are tagged with "mal's ocs" (minus the quotes). posts about or containing my writing are tagged with "mal's writing" (again, sans quotes). posts about my sci-fi setting specifically are tagged "the eating of names". i'd pin the latter two if they were actually among my top 15 most used tags lol. fair warning, my writing tends to be quite dark and deal with some heavy themes.
avatar is a much more humanoid depiction of my OC Arwen Tachht than is strictly accurate, made in this Picrew. (I have humanoidsonas for my non-humanoid OCs because I cannot draw them myself and must rely on dollmakers and such, hooray chronic pain)
the easiest way to find a mistake in something you wrote is to send it to someone to have them look at it and then look at it again while waiting for them to respond
fucking REAL. You notice every single typo and grammatical error and stumble over yourself to fix them as quickly as possible like "PLEASE I PROMISE I'M NOT ACTUALLY THAT STUPID"
It's always this or actually publishing it and then SCRAMBLING to fix it before someone reads it and sees how SILLY you are.
If you noticed typos, missing words, and other copyediting mistakes in my posts getting incrementally fixed during the hour or so following their having gone live
no you didn't.
A trick i have for proofreading is to change the font into something silly but legible. It sounds dumb but it helps.
for me this is definitely a case of breaking out of the focus zone I get into when writing, which is great for getting words down but not necessarily for parsing them on a readback. need a different frame of reference for editing