I must have proofread it at least two dozen times. At least.

[MillieDynamite]

@gunhilltrain, I always knew you were an odd fellow.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I still laugh at the typo I made in 'My Best Friend's Crazy Fat Sister' where the narrator reflects that it was 'worth the weight' rather than 'worth the wait' after he and his friend's overweight sister (whom he had lusted over for years) have sex for the first time.

A Freudian slip? Did Freud actually make that comment? There is a store near me where I can buy "Phyllis Cheese-steaks." Obviously, English as a second language. Yet it sounds like the name of a low-rent porn star.

 

[angelwingsub]

Is it true the best way to proof is to read it in a mirror?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Is it true the best way to proof is to read it in a mirror?

Redrum.

 

[MillieDynamite]

He made silk slips in his spare time... He said was good therapy working with women's underwear for him.

A Freudian slip? Did Freud actually make that comment? There is a store near me where I can buy "Phyllis Cheese-steaks." Obviously, English as a second language. Yet it sounds like the name of a low-rent porn star.

 

[gunhilltrain]

He made silk slips in his spare time... He said was good therapy working with women's underwear for him.

I'll take your word on that, unless you're kidding me. Perhaps he wore them when no one was around. I suspect he was a weirder person than he let on. Has anyone ever written a psychiatrist/psychologist story in the Transgender/Crossdressers category? I think that would go over well in Story Ideas.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I have not, but it might be one I might look at it for my Just a Friendly series. "Just a Friendly Therapist" is coming to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookapy soon. Or not!

I'll take your word on that, unless you're kidding me. Perhaps he wore them when no one was around. I suspect he was a weirder person than he let on. Has anyone ever written a psychiatrist/psychologist story in the Transgender/Crossdressers category? I think that would go over well in Story Ideas.

 

[Mastered_again]

He made silk slips in his spare time... He said was good therapy working with women's underwear for him.

I heard he was making them in his mother's size.

 

[SmokingFap]

Grammarly, as annoying as in can be - and it definitely is - will usually catch spelling errors. The word processor spell-checker can be used earlier. Of course, there/their/they're errors may not be picked up.

In the age of typewriters, I was rushing to finish a term paper when I left a there/their mistake in. The professor wrote on it, "This is a sinister grammatical error." Only an English professor would call it that.

Try finding out, after you've sent out a couple dozen resumes for a marketing position, that you listed "Pubic Relations" as one of your areas of expertise.

Some of you may need to read the above twice...

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm sure I picked up that idea from one of your posts a while back. So far I usually do it once and then change back to the default appearance after reading it.

I do it frequently, and it's surprising what you find each time. Doing it only once isn't enough, you've got to see it differently each time.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I heard he was making them in his mother's size.

He also had a couple of daughters, so who knows what size he preferred. There are lot of ironies about him. It's notable that after fleeing Austria for England, he would up dying on September 23, 1939. Maybe one of his last thoughts was, "I hope those damn Nazis don't win this war."

I had another one that I can confirm, but I can't find it right now.

 

[StillStunned]

The weird thing is that I sort of, like it? Not sure of the exact term I should use. It's the phase where you can see, most of the time, that the story was worth doing in the first place. For most of the stories I never finished, I abandoned them part of the way through the writing. There are a few cases where a story wasn't working, and I was able to send it in another direction and salvage it. Usually that required seeing some aspect of the main character (or characters) that I had missed before.

I love the editing stage. The story is there, and now I can focus on the words. Getting the sentences and paragraphs just right. Finding the right places to let the silence do the talking. Matching sounds to the mood. It's the whole bit where I try to make the story come to life purely through the choice of words.

A Freudian slip? Did Freud actually make that comment? There is a store near me where I can buy "Phyllis Cheese-steaks." Obviously, English as a second language. Yet it sounds like the name of a low-rent porn star.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean your mother.

 

[gunhilltrain]

More Sigmund. He would have made an interesting addition to the writing crew here on Lit. I can't find it now in the morass of Wikipedia text, but he did say that smoking (cigarettes and cigars) was comparable to the "ultimate addiction" of masturbation. Yet, Doctor, but there are no rehab centers for that, or we would all have had stints in one of those.

I wonder what his user name would have been?

 

[StillStunned]

More Sigmund. He would have made an interesting addition to the writing crew here on Lit.

Perhaps Lit is just one big social science experiment.

 

[MillieDynamite]

That's very interesting but stupid. I've been told that's a funny way to respond. But my dad always did it with a German accent. I'm sure it is archaic popular social something or another that he's failed to tell me about.

Perhaps Lit is just one big social science experiment.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

More Sigmund. He would have made an interesting addition to the writing crew here on Lit. I can't find it now in the morass of Wikipedia text, but he did say that smoking (cigarettes and cigars) was comparable to the "ultimate addiction" of masturbation. Yet, Doctor, but there are no rehab centers for that, or we would all have had stints in one of those.

I wonder what his user name would have been?

Anyone notice Freud holding the corndog? Subtle.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sometimes a corndog is just a horndog, I mean corndog!

Anyone notice Freud holding the corndog? Subtle.

 

[nice90sguy]

very interesting but stupid

It's from Laugh-In:

 

[Mastered_again]

Sometimes a corndog is just a horndog, I mean corndog!

Okay, I'll bite. Was Freud a horndog?

 

[MillieDynamite]

@nice90sguy Yeah, he never told me, and I never asked. To be honest, I like Dad's version better.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Hum, that's a good question. We'd need to find some of his old patents and find out. Oh, wait, they're all dead. Let's say he was, it's more fun that way.

Okay, I'll bite. Was Freud a horndog?

 

[Mastered_again]

Hum, that's a good question. We'd need to find some of his old patents and find out. Oh, wait, they're all dead. Let's say he was, it's more fun that way.

Maybe a horndog living vicariously through his patients

 

[MillieDynamite]

Ummm, could be!!!!

Maybe a horndog living vicariously through his patients

 

[nice90sguy]

Yeah, he never told me, and I never asked. To be honest, I like Dad's version better.

Some catch phrases from Wayne's World will be funny forever... NOT