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points by maybewhenthesun 11 hours ago | 0 comments
I don't think the difference is in the writers so much, as in the publishers. If you look at manuscripts by famous writers they're often full of typos. And if you look at old correspondence between writers and their publishers there are often discussions of continuity errors and the like.

These days lots of books are self published. And even the big publishers spend less money + time on this kind of thing.

[–] wongarsu 11 hours ago
And some of the most common writing advise you will find, especially around getting out of writer's block, is to just write stuff down without correcting errors. Just get the first draft on paper. Some authors even choose to use typewriters or a pen because those don't allow them to easily go back to fix typos

Then in the second and third pass the author is obviously more concerned about fixing continuity, story and flow than about hunting typos.

[–] okeuro49 10 hours ago
Apropos typos: writing advice