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Originally Posted by VydorScope
I tend to read what I meant, not what I wrote. I KNOW the story, I KNOW what happens and who says what.  I do catch some stuff as I make many passes through the story, but for the most part with out my editor I am illiterate! 
I know I am not the only one, which is why every single book on writing I have ever read all said "get an editor no matter how good you are." |
Reading/seeing what you expect to read/see is very common. It is why there are very few books published that are 100% error free. Of course, some errors aren't really errors, just differences of opinion
. Anyway, I wrote an article on the problem called
The WYSIWYG Conundrum: The Solid Cloud. The problem is a combination of seeing what you expect and homonyms. For example, it isn't uncommon to have written
there when you meant
their and when you self-edit seeing
their because you expect it.