So I created this blog from scratch, and after posting my first article I noticed something.

I suffer from post-Post clarity

I have noticied before when posting random bullshit online, but holy shit, now having to write longer stuff, it’s clear as day.

As soon as I press the publish button even after re-reading the whole thing, everywhere I look is spelling/grammar mistakes and stupid takes.

How in hell does this happen?

Anyways as a proof of concept any edit will be in comment thread.

This is why I have the thing about editing my comments so often in my profile. I proof-read them before posting, or am confident in what I was saying until I read it after posting it and notice errors or realize I’m an idiot.

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Proof read it backwards, one sentence at a time. When you read it forwards, your brain already knows what should be there, so it skips over a lot.

Also, just use a word processor to write it, and let it do the grunt work of spelling and grammar checking for you.

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My browser has spell chdck, why do you need a word processor?

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My bowsrer also had sprl chek, i knoe exatcly what yoi me E n!

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your browser has a what now

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lmao, to be fair I wrote that on my phone πŸ˜‚

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Don’t worry. AI will slave eberything.

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I will never not read β€œAI” as β€œAl”(with an L) . Makes it more goofy, so less scary.

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My post-post clarity is when I look at what I just posted and find a bunch of typos that I had overlooked at least three times.

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I think it’s because our brain can’t really focus on both content and spelling at the same time. You can only really check either the message or the spelling at one time when you are the author.

When you check the message/content of your post, you look at every sentence and ask yourself: does it convey my point? Did I choose the right words?

When you check spelling, you should check word by word without looking at the meaning(unless spelling depends on it). Since you know what’s coming next in your story, you’re probably just rushing through the sentences. You’ll miss stuff because you don’t read every word. It is the classic β€œthe the” problem where the same word is shown twice in a sentence, but you miss it because you only fastread it.

Also, spell check last. If you spellcheck first and then do some rewriting, the new stuff will have a high chance of spelling errors.

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