When I finally am making enough off Ad Astra to hire someone, the first thing I will do is hire a proofreader/editor for my newsletter because the number of typos is frankly embarrassing but I'm also shit at self-editing
I would be willing to do this on a volunteer basis for a while (no strings about employment later!). Career copywriter and proofreader, happy to discuss more over email or messages
Thank you!!! I may take you up on that in the coming months—part of the problem right now is that there isn’t really enough time between when I write and publish for an external editor (something I need to work on, I have so many process improvements to make)
There's *something* about staring at your own words that can make even the best of our brains go a little "tyop" blind - like, you know what you meant, so that's what you see, right?
I understand completely and it's why I was various friends' go-to "2nd eye" in college - I knew what they meant, but saw what they'd written, so my copyediting markings helped.
Still do it on occasion, but less often bc I should really charge for it.
As a person who had a professor at university called me functionally illiterate as a writer, I sympathize. But a savior has arisen, thanks to the inventors of AI. Though not perfect, it has finally made me coherent to others. Yes, AI helped me write this.
You're writing on a deadline. That makes it hard to put it away for a week before reviewing it.
A friend suggested having a text-to-speech program read it out loud to you. It won't catch everything, but you'll be surprised at how your ears will reject what your eyes will ignore.
