[ExI] commentary by one of ours

[Darren Greer]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:


I consider it valuable feedback/education on that difference.
> Considering Darren has professed to be a writer and also considering
> the sometimes deplorable state of proof-reading services he may
> employ, it's better to know about that particular homophone while
> writing than to hope someone catches it later.  (since it would not be
> trapped by a spellchecker)



For a minute in fact I was horribly embarrassed and my face got hot,
especially as the topic under discussion was that of being a writer, of
which, as you say, I profess to be. Then I got thinking about it, and
realized I don't think I'd ever written the cliche "piqued my interest"
before and I actually had never considered the difference. I make tons of
errors of this sort in manuscripts which copy-editors have to catch and
sometimes they don't. So I decided to be grateful for the heads-up, rather
than embarrassed about it. If you find something that you like doing, and
that you are good at it, I find that you've got keep a student mentality
about it all your life or you ossify.
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