Marinating the work, when possible

Spell-checker…Always

Slowly reading the work aloud to myself. This forces me to hear what I’m saying as well as reading it. It really helps find awkward construction, overlong sentences, etc. The other advantage of reading it is if you every plan to record the work as a podcast or video, it helps makes sure it performs as well as it reads.

That sounds like good advice Nancy. I have never specifically tried it, but it sounds like it would actually work well. And I’m sure I’d catch some punctuation errors while checking the grammar, and vice versa.

Anne, I use Google Chrome as my browser, and it checks the spelling of everything I type online, which I really appreciate.

I’ve also found that Word grammar checker rarely offers me useful advice, and that’s why I usually have it turned off.

I literally got into computers back in the day because they’d check my very creative spelling. I don’t trust ’em but they have given me a leg up ever since.

I very occasionally check the grammar word doesn’t like… I would guess out of checking 100 times I’ve changed 1.5 sentences… it really doesn’t match my voice at all.

I don’t marinate, I yeast manuscripts… lol… same thing of course.

I’ve also learned that there is no such thing as a perfect manuscript and have declared my blog a typos accepted blog.

Tom, I’ve perused Eats, Shoots and Leaves and really liked it.

And whether we want to or not, we have to study these books, at least if we want to make good money.