How to litter your manuscript with typos (in 9 easy steps!)

Yes, this is based on a recent personal experience. Want the details? Keep reading!

How to litter your manuscript with typos

Create a character with a short name that could easily be found in many longer words — i.e., “Kat”
Write 40,000 words of a story
Realize that you prefer an alternate spelling — i.e., “Cat”
Do a “Search All” and “Replace All” to change the spelling — i.e., “Kat” > “Cat”
Write another 10,000 words
Realize you prefer the first spelling
Do a “Search All” and “Replace All” to change the spelling back — i.e., “Cat” > “Kat”
Casually reread the story and realize you’ve created 218 typos — i.e., “sKatter”, “reloKated”, unsKathed”, “mediKations”
Success!

This definitely just happened to me, and I spent twenty minutes using Ctrl+F to find all my ridiculously spelled words and fix them. Honestly not a big deal, but still a very silly thing I could have avoided. Ahh, the joys of NaNoWriMo!

 

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