As I work through starting up a book layout business, it is time to go back and layout my short story collections for print. As one does before formatting, I reread the Chalk & Memories stories, looking for typos.
For those who aren’t aware, typos are self-propagating errors in your text. Sanderson’s Law (if I am getting it correct) says that the number of people you have proofread your work is a direct inverse relationship to how close to the first page the first reader will find a typo. Lots of people makes it a certainty that there will be a typo on the first few pages.
So you can always find more typos.
Going through the stories, looking for the squigglies the spell and grammar checker leaves, I found myself reading the stories. Happily, they seem to hold up pretty well.
I think it says something when your own stories choke you up.
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