Lazy Sunday Post: Typo Terrors

For those of you who don't know, I do more than just blog incoherently at nothing about nothing in particular whenever the mood strikes me. In fact, there's even a chance that at least one person reading this actually recognizes my screen name and knows that I'm actually an author.

Well, I say "author", but I'm pretty sure you actually have to have a book published before you can call yourself one of those. But you know what, I've written an embarrassingly large enough amount of fanfiction, and I've got enough book ideas in my head that I'm going to keep using that title and hopefully no one will think to call me out on it. Or look up my fanfiction. Please, God, don't look up my fanfiction. It's atrocious and from when I was in middle school. I keep it exclusively as a souvenir, not as a serious example of me as a writer. 

I was going somewhere with this. And I still am, so don't commit me to the asylum just yet. I bring up my identity as an author because I once again am writing a novel, Sara Barton and the Argo, a story set in the Adventureverse/Phoenixverse/whatever I decide to call it one day. I'll probably explain what exactly that's about one day soon, but for now I'd just like to throw that out there. It's a whole lot of fun, especially thanks to my recent discovery that I can type without looking at the keys (No idea how that happened, never got around to taking Keyboarding in school), and I can't wait to publish it.

That being said, the experience so far has also served as a wonderful reminder as to why I use a laptop over a typewriter. Well, besides the whole thing about typewriters weighing a metric butt-ton and being incredibly out of date. I make a lot of typos. Little ones, mostly, and nothing helps hide them than the red squiggly line and Google's right-click to correct feature.

And since this is the lazy Sunday post, I figured I'd crank out a free article by listing out my most common typos. Enjoy.


Pari/Paor=Pair I have no idea why this happens so much, but it does, and it annoys me. 

Sra: Sara This one happens almost everytime I try to type out this girl's name, and she's the protagonist of the whole dang novel, so yes, this one comes up fairly regularly.

hoepful: hopefully I don't know what it is with me mixing up the order of letters.\

frood: food Heh. Frood.

iot: it The more of these I list out, the more I think that I really should invest the eight seconds it takes to program an autocorrect.

slgith: slight This one is a nightmare. I literally retyped it three times while trying to correct it once.

And, as a bonus, my favorite typo that I ever made:

pooped: popped Really changes the meaning when the sentence was supposed to be "a brick wall popped out of nowhere."