Thursday, February 04, 2010

The new rallying cry of writers everywhere: NO! No! NO!

I'll bet you thought this was about e-book royalties and pricing didn't you?

Not a chance.

It's the next installment of Gary Corby's hilarious tips on making your word processing program work magic for you.
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10 comments:

  1. Unknown2/4/10, 7:32 PM

    Wow, I loved the idea of autocorrecting a misspell on purpose. I'd also never have thought to do character names that way. That's pretty awesome. Thanks for the link!

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  2. Laurel2/4/10, 8:26 PM

    LOL! The first thing I did upon completing an actual MS-whole book- was search function for "just." Actually, it was more a search and destroy function. Actually, "actually" was right after "just".

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  3. Furious D2/4/10, 8:27 PM

    I have to take some time to absorb those posts, because I'm normally hopeless with tech stuff.

    Definitely bookmarked.

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  4. Luanna Stewart2/4/10, 8:32 PM

    Brilliant! I can plug in all my garbage words and they'll shout at me immediately. May make for a tighter first draft.

    Thanks for passing this along.

    Lu

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  5. Margaret Yang2/4/10, 9:08 PM

    I just love this.

    Ooops. I mean, I NO, NO, NO love this.

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  6. Deep River2/4/10, 9:31 PM

    Brilliant

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  7. Gary Corby2/4/10, 10:50 PM

    Thanks everyone, I'm glad you liked it!

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  8. _*rachel*_2/5/10, 2:01 AM

    OK I'm following his blog now. How can I not, after both autocorrect AND Greek history hilarity?

    Hmmm... spellcheck NO! No! No! underlined "autocorrect"--and it NO! NO! NO! underlined "spellcheck," too!

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  9. Vacuum Queen2/6/10, 1:49 AM

    So cool. And smart.

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  10. The Daring Novelist2/7/10, 1:01 AM

    That technique could lead to some interesting results if you forgot to fix those replacements before showing your critique group....

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