Easy? Not

Anyone who says writing a book is easy is probably correct in their thinking. All a person needs to do is sit down, turn on the computer, bring up a word processing program such as MS Word, and start typing. That's the easy part. Editing, on the other hand, is time consuming, brain wrecking, and painstakingly difficult. Nothing is where it should be in the story until the editing is done several times. There are programs such as MS Word that help with typo's, spelling, and even some grammar. One thing to remember though, it's only a computer program and it will not distinguish between little things such as to, too, and two or even a missed character such as h so then is suddenly ten. Sometimes it might but sometimes isn't good enough. The story a person writes must be read by that author several times until he or she is so sick and tired of it that the toilet is about to be flushed. That's the beauty of it. Once it is done, it is then time to sit back and let others enjoy your creation.

Until next time,
Robert Detroit