You Say Envelops, I Say Envelopes
I quadruple-checked my submission letter.
Perfecto!
It’s the third time I’ve submitted a piece to this publication and this one will make it through the slush pile. Yes, I just know it.
Zing! Off it goes with a click of the mouse.
I look in my Send Box to make sure it’s gone.
It’s left. But one word stares at my face, sticking its tongue out: Envelopes.
I wrote envelopes when I meant to write envelops.
ARGH!
Why do these mistakes always pop out after the letter is sent?
Yeah, so moving on, I found this site yesterday. An online memoir about a marriage that survived the death of a son. www.TheSonshineBoy.org. Intense topic, I know, but I love memoirs, so I had to spread the word.
While I'm at it, I took a writing class with a woman whose piece is being published in the anthology Pulse of the River. If you’re a river-lover, or Colorado lover, or just want to support my classmate Diane Fromme you can find the book here: www.PulseOfTheRiver.org
Okay, so I just typed classmake instead of classmate. But I caught it in time. Of course. Because it's not going to an editor.
posted by Jenny at 8:54 AM
7 Comments:
For the record, I never would have caught on to the envelop misspelling. I can't even spell misspelling. Also...I didn't catch the classmates mistake either. See why I'm not an editor?
Congratulatons to Diane (I hope I spelled that right)? Diane? Congratulations? Hoo-boy.
9:51 AM
Classic! You sound like me! I'm an EXCELLENT editor, but only when it doesn't count!
10:11 AM
I recently changed the name of an ex-boyfriend in my memoir WIP, using Find/Replace: Find "Ben"/Replace with "Tim" Pretty straightforward, right? Except that now I have 274 pages of writing with strange typos, where "benefit" has been changed to "Timefit," and "benificient" is now "Timeficient." You get the picture. Sigh.
11:37 AM
I hate noticing mistakes after it's too late. Last year I submitted a grant proposal with a glaring error--I meant to type "This project will reduce childhood obesity by x percent" (or something along those lines) but I typed "This project will increase childhood obesity ..."
Nobody noticed it, though. Not the 6 clients that read it, nor the grant reviewers. Amazing.
11:38 AM
Oh drat! That seems to always happen doesn't it (and always on the important stuff). Let's hope all their brains are functioning well and will automatically erase the "e" at the end when they read the word in context.
Sidenote: I made no fewer than 9 errors typing this little comment! Gah - MUST SLOW DOWN, MSUT SLOW DNOW! ;)
7:12 PM
i say mistakes shouldn't count. that's why we have editors. if we never made mistakes they wouldn;t have jobs.
4:10 AM
I once did a brochure for a lawyer and it was agreed upon from the beginning that she and 2 other lawyers would proof read it- so I was off the hook.
The 50,000 brochures were printed and as I started reading the side panel of what services they offered I noticed that they offered
"Meditation" instead of "Mediation"
Who knew? Maybe they did...
Great post Jenny.
6:51 AM
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