Do you self-edit your episodes?

Noise Tank · Post by **Noise Tank** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 7:53 pm

And I don't mean just putting it through spell check. Do you really read through it all. I used to not do that, but after reading through them, I realized just how much I change and how much better they become, but I'm curious to know if even MSG, with the Top 10 (And probably 50) longest episodes edits.

JH · Post by JH » Sun Sep 10, 2006 8:41 am

I read my episodes through immediately after posting, to try to catch any spelling or other mistakes. Occasionally I will notice something else that can be improved and fix that too, but not very often.

Noise Tank · Post by **Noise Tank** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:08 pm

Isn't that what spell-check is for?

JH · Post by JH » Sun Sep 10, 2006 2:55 pm

I compose my episodes in Notepad, which doesn't offer spell-checking. Besides, that can offer a false sense of security. If you type "quite" for "quiet", for example, the spell checker won't pick it up.

Noise Tank · Post by **Noise Tank** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:23 pm

But isn't that what reading over it is for?

JH · Post by JH » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:13 am

Yep. All I'm saying is that I do a final read-over after posting.

Noise Tank · Post by **Noise Tank** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:54 am

I used to have a horrible pet-peeve of reading it over, but now I see it as an opprotunity to fix my mistakes.

El' MooCow · Post by **El' MooCow** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:06 am

'Tis why we have the preview button.

JH · Post by JH » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:10 pm

Yes, there's a Preview button, but I always prefer to get the episode Saved before a crash can occur. It's just as easy to edit the episode after saving it as before.

Won-Tolla · Post by **Won-Tolla** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:47 am

I read through my episodes. After all, that's what I expect the readers to do!

As for editing, I preview, correct obvious errors and preview again. If I find more errors I repeat the cycle, otherwise I post it and read through it one more time.
As a matter of fact I posted an episode ten minutes ago where I did some corrections after posting. Turned out that I had got a new character's name wrong. It would be great if there was a way to see previous episodes without leaving the editing page.

JH · Post by JH » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:52 am

Well, you can always open another instance of your browser.

El' MooCow · Post by **El' MooCow** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:23 pm

By the way, in terms of spell-checking, you could just use Firefox which has an in-browser spell checker.