🔎 Today’s top #proofreading spots from a fantasy novel.
❌ The tower rose in the distance, its height all the more impressiveness from her vantage point ➡️ impressive ✅
❌ The creature’s wings billowed and caught on an updraft ➡️ updraught ✅ 🇬🇧
❌ Mystical plains ➡️ planes ✅
❌ A minute or slater ➡️ a minute or so later ✅
❌ I am going to but some lunch ➡️ buy ✅
❌ She looked down and the retreating landscape ➡️ at ✅
A variety of errors including a fair few typos and missing words. These are errors that are really difficult to spot in your own writing as you read what you think is there rather than what’s actually there.
That’s why it’s always useful to have a second pair of eyes to check over your work. 👀
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