How to litter your manuscript with typos (in 9 easy steps!)

Michelle Proulx - Author

Yes, this is based on a recent personal experience. Want the details? Keep reading!

How to litter your manuscript with typos

1. Create a character with a short name that could easily be found in many longer words — i.e., “Kat”
2. Write 40,000 words of a story
3. Realize that you prefer an alternate spelling — i.e., “Cat”
4. Do a “Search All” and “Replace All” to change the spelling — i.e., “Kat” > “Cat”
5. Write another 10,000 words
6. Realize you prefer the first spelling
7. Do a “Search All” and “Replace All” to change the spelling back — i.e., “Cat” > “Kat”
8. Casually reread the story and realize you’ve created 218 typos — i.e., “sKatter”, “reloKated”, unsKathed”, “mediKations”
9. Success!

This definitely just happened to me, and I spent twenty minutes using Ctrl+F to find all my ridiculously spelled words and fix them. Honestly not a big deal, but still a very silly thing…

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