A Lesson Learned

They say “time flies when you’re having fun.” Looking at the date of the previous post makes me wonder just how much fun I’ve been having. It sure didn’t seem like that much fun, although life has been going along pretty well and there is no room for complaint. That’s not too bad, when I think about it.

There is one thing I have learned that I really want to pass along to anyone who publishes something. And it is: double, better yet, triple proofread before publishing. And make use of SPELLCHECKERS.

Typos have long been a pet peeve of mine, having been a typesetter for many years. I mentioned this blog to my brother a few days ago, and he emailed me with a short lecture on spelling errors, pointing out several he had noticed. When I recovered from my mortification, which was especially huge because I thought I had corrected everything, I copied all the posts and ran them through the spellchecker in Word, which found about 6 or 7 additional typos. My apologies to anyone else who was offended.

Until I find where Blogspot has hidden the spellchecker, I will create these blogs—and anything else to be published—in Word or something else with a spellchecker and paste it into the post dialog box.

My brother is thinking of starting a small publishing business for those authors whose work is not of interest to the world of regular publishers. It would be interesting to know if anyone “out there” would find such a service of interest. It seems to me that the “print on demand” idea might be valuable for such an endeavor. Research is underway, in a small fashion.

I’ve actually been thinking about and researching the results of the last post. The result is that I’ve come up with something to begin trying to sell on eBay and actually think that it may have be successful. I will keep the subject quiet for now, lest the secret gets to too many potential competitors.