Writing Tips: Spell Check and Grammar Check
These tools have saved my rear a number of times. They, at least, help me from looking stupid. I usually use MS word to write my blog entries. The program finds most of my mistakes as I type them. For most spelling errors, it actually fixes the error without even letting me know that it changed the spelling for me. This is usually when it knows that the word can’t be anything other than the word I am trying to type.
If it can’t figure out what I am trying to spell, it underlines it with a little red hash mark letting me know that I need to figure out the spelling before I go on an publish the article. It will do the same thing on grammatical mistakes. It will use a little green hash mark under the sentence or set of words that are nit making a whole lot of sense.
When you are writing your novel, you can forget these tools. You first draft is supposed to have every spelling error known to man and have clunky sentence structure. The point for your first draft is to get it written… no matter how bad it is. Then before you print out the manuscript to do the first edit, go through and fix all the red and green hash marks. This will make your edits a whole lot easier.
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