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: Mol (mollyringle) wrote,
2007-01-06 21:06:00

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2007-01-06 21:06:00

Confessional; a.k.a. "Did you mean serotonin?"

I tend to think myself immune to the need for spell-check, but I do occasionally run it anyway. Tonight I found that in my most recent novel-in-progress, I misspelled the following words:

serotonin
idiosyncrasies
exhilaration

My one consolation is that Microsoft Word didn't know how to spell them either--that is, it had no suggestions on correcting them; it just "knew" they were wrong. I had to Google them to find the right spellings.

Tags: linguistics, writing

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Confessional; a.k.a. "Did you mean serotonin?"

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The shame we carry forward from youth, and the empathy of writing

On All the Better Part of Me as a coming-out book

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Being a memoirist again, just for tonight

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On All the Better Part of Me as a coming-out book