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For Want of Am

Submitted by JeannieWatt on Fri, 2008-07-11 14:31.

I’m a perfectionist, but not a proofreader. It doesn’t make sense, does it? Well, it’s true—just ask my editor. I have no problem catching misspellings—they’re usually underlined in red by my helpful word program. I can find wrong words, grammar errors, poor sentence structure. What I can’t find are missing words—particularly the small ones. When I proofread, my brain fills in the blanks, so that makes it difficult to find the blanks. I try to read aloud, backwards, forwards, etc., but unless I make a Herculean effort to concentrate, I miss missing words.
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