Advice to anyone who writes anything on a computer:<\/p>\n
Say you've written the line \"The men ran down the hill.\"<\/p>\n
Now say you decide to change that to \"They ran down the hill.\"<\/p>\n
It's a really good idea to make sure that you actually delete the old text after you add the new text.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, you end up with lines like \"They The men ran down the hill.\" Or \"The men They ran down the hill.\"<\/p>\n
It's an easy mistake to make. I've made it myself, plenty of times. So be careful, and try to avoid making it.<\/p>\n
I mention this because I've run into half-changed sentences like this in probably more than half of the submissions I've read in the past few days. Sometimes even in the very first sentence of the story.<\/p>\n
It's not gonna make me reject the story. But it comes across as sloppy.<\/p>\n
(Written in early June, but I neglected to post it 'til now. Can you tell I'm working through my unpublished-entries list?)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Advice to anyone who writes anything on a computer: Say you’ve written the line “The men ran down the hill.”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}