Trees For the Wood?

[shapinglight]

Funny, isn't it, how you can read something over and over and not see the typos, but, when you go back to it months later, they're staring you in the face?

For instance, someone had sent me kudos on Ao3 for my story The King and She, so I followed the link back and sort of lazily re-read a few paragraphs.

Only to come across this beauty. Xander shook his heads.

Needless to say, Xander is no longer a two-headed monster.

Comments

[laisserais]

:D It's the worst, finding typos years after the fact.

[shapinglight]

It is. Not as bad as if it was a printed book, though. At least you can change it.

[yourlibrarian]

It's amazing how these things can keep slipping by us (and betas) -- I've done the same.

[shapinglight]

It really is.

[ex_peasant441]

Xander shook his heads.

Needless to say, Xander is no longer a two-headed monster.

Hee. A whole world of smutty jokes opens up before us...

[shapinglight]

I can't compute Xander and smutty jokes in the same sentence.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Happens to me all the time, even in fics that have been through a couple of betas.

[shapinglight]

Yep. Same here. Though in this instance, I have only myself to blame.

[chasingdemons.livejournal.com]

:) I guess spell check couldn't have caught that. But now I am intrigued with the thought of a two-headed Xander. Plot bunny?

[shapinglight]

Possibly for some Xander fan.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

LOL That happens to me all the time. I find editing on AO3 to be a bit of a pain, though, so I would only change it on there if it was really egregious.

[shapinglight]

Really? I don't find it difficult.

Just as well. I read some of my story summaries and they're terrible. If I were browsing and came across them, I wouldn't read them based on those.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I totally suck at summaries. Fixing some of them would probably be more useful than looking to fix old typos. LOL

[shapinglight]

It certainly would in my case.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

Why I'm constantly revising ...

[shapinglight]

Same here. Worst of all is when I spot it and don't have time to correct it, and then of course forget where in the story it was.

[ash-carpenter.livejournal.com]

I reread a fic of mine recently - one which is 21 x 8k chapters long. I only intended to breeze the first chapter, but I found so many mistakes I was utterly horrified and ended up rereading (and correcting) the whole thing. I must have written the damned story with my eyes closed...

So, yeah. Feel your pain, sweetie!

[shapinglight]

;)

And there was me hoping for a future career in proof reading.

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

There has to be a story in there about Anya getting someone to make a wish after the wedding that wasn't. *g*

[shapinglight]

Yes, indeed. Maybe you should write it?

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I think I'd need to be on the really good drugs before I attempted that one! *g*

[shapinglight]

Ah, go, on, go on, go on!

:uses appropriate icon:

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Laughing here :)

[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

At least not in this story.....hmmm. wonder what Xander would do if he woke up one morning with...mwahahahaha!

[shapinglight]

I think he might be a bit taken aback. :)

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Considering I ran across a guy born with two fully functioning dicks that answer questions on Rediit and Twitter... Xander shook his heads gave me some very interesting mental images! X-D

[shapinglight]

Really? Eeep!

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! It's... sorta mindblowing, really. How that can even work, you know? But he is very nice and very interesting and answers questions with regularity. I found him here:

Doubledickdude on Reddit

Doubledickdude on Twitter

Obviously, there's some NSFW images on both places. :-)

[shapinglight]

:Takes deep, calming breaths: