🔎 Want to know my all-time favourite type of proofreading spot?
When I catch that the name of something has changed.
🍦 Like the same ice cream parlour with two different names in two different chapters.
🏘 Or the same street with two different names in two different chapters.
📄 I catch these inconsistencies by creating style sheets for my clients where I take extensive notes on characters, locations, the timeline – all sorts of different things that matter in terms of consistency.
👁 You don’t want someone’s eye colour to suddenly change.
👨👩👧👦 You don’t want siblings to suddenly be remembered, or forgotten.
👨🎓 You don’t want their alma mater to fluctuate.
📚 So, when I catch something like this, I’m always really pleased to flag it, and authors are always relieved that it can be corrected before it goes to print.
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