Proofreading and Avoiding Over Picky Reviews · 4:38pm Mar 5th, 2022
Hey, True Believers!
If you're like me, you can read your work 1,000 times and think you got all the kinks (not sexual) out. You post it and then someone replies with a litany of your mistakes.
A lot of time they think that you should write in the "King's English", not taking into consideration that you may be expressing a dialect or colloquialism. Or worse (gasp), you meant it to sound that way. Lighten up, this is neither an English Term Paper or great literature.
So how do you avoid this? I've found if it is read back to me, I can catch the mistakes that I gloss over because I know what it should be saying and therefore I fail to SEE it. So how do you get it read back to you without having a friend or family member laughing at your mistakes or being the critic you're trying to avoid?
I use the program: http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm. It is a nifty FREE program that can be slightly tailored. I use it often, and I can even save the corrected stories as mp3's or m4b's to use like audiobooks! I have even used this with my real published books.
Give this a try and let me know what you think!
Stormbringer
