![]() ![]() For more information on creating a great writing group, go to All of the above works well for small pieces. Yes, you can ask your parent or spouse to read your writing, but can they give you objective feedback? Probably not. Having three or four or five other people read and discuss your work helps you find everything from simple typos to major plot problems. This is when being a member of a great writing group REALLY pays off. IPod Shuffle, Nano, Classic, and Touch Four: Ask others to read your work. Under Extras, I select Voice Memos. I record a piece and listen to it over and over until I catch all the elusive logic and continuity errors. ![]() My favorite way to record my voice is with my I-Pod. Three: Record your voice as you read what you’ve written. If you stumble as you read your own writing aloud, imagine how it will sound to others. Errors shine in the spotlight of the voice. Hearing your words is like turning on the light in a dim room. Here are a few of my favorite proofreading techniques: One: Read what you’ve written and then read it again. Secondarily, I learned that writers must utilize many proofreading tools to minimize typos and continuity errors. Primarily, I learned that even one of the bestselling authors of all time makes mistakes! ( ). See for more details about the wand order problem. Since it was Lily Potter’s love of her son, Harry, which destroyed Voldemort, she should have come out of Voldemort’s wand before Harry’s father. My husband, my son, and I were reading aloud this fourth book in the beloved Harry Potter series and we immediately realized the mistake. My son was seven years old in the summer of 2000. When Harry’s parents appeared, his father came out of the wand before his mother. ![]() Voldemort and Harry’s wands had met in battle and the result was Voldemort’s ghostly victims spewing out in the reverse order that he killed them, that is, his last victim coming out of his wand first. Like every reader, I’ve come across typos and small continuity errors in novels and short stories, but few created the world-wide uproar as the error found on page 667 of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the First American edition, July 2000. ![]()
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