Homophonia - by Debbie Bennett
Here’s a thing – a spellcheck is not a dictionary. It can tell you if the word you have written is correctly spelled, but what if that wasn’t the word you wanted in the first place? What good is a perfect word in the wrong surroundings? Writers rely far too much on spellcheck in my opinion. There are the obvious too/two/to and their/there/they’re mix-ups. Its/it’s and your/you’re . Spellcheck is never going to tell you you’ve used the wrong one and it’s an easy mistake to make when your fingers are hitting the keyboard in an inspirational frenzy. But that’s when editing becomes important, when sometimes just changing the font or the type size moves the text around on the screen and you stop seeing what you think is there and start reading the actual words you wrote. I read the sample of an ebook on Amazon a while back. I can’t remember what it was, but I didn’t get past the first paragraph because of the hoards of people. Yes – hoards of people – can you imagine t...