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Writer's Hazard

Do your fingers ever write faster Than your brain thinks of the words? You discover incomplete sentences That do not mean what you thought. You find that you’ve omitted a verb And so, your phrase has no action, A modifier left unsaid, no traction. In a comment, or, in writing a blurb Proofread before sharing what's wrote. As for you, I can think of instances Where inadvertent omits were hazards More often for me, they’re a disaster. Written April 1, 2022 [Verso-Rhyme]

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 4/2/2022 11:52:00 PM

This is great advice "Proofread before sharing what's wrote." The trouble is that the right brain and the left brain are often not in sync. The proofreader and the creator do not communicate. The best advice is to have someone ELSE proofread because they will catch what you cannot.

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/3/2022 9:16:00 AM

That's very true, but I don't have anyone else to do that for me. My problem is generally NO BRAIN! (chuckling) I don't know whether I'm right or left brained. I hope I'm ambi-brained. How's that?

Pashang Salehi

Date: 4/2/2022 12:10:00 AM

Are you talking about me?... Haha... or perhaps you're talking about the Alien Hand Syndrome...

Pashang Salehi
Date: 4/8/2022 12:28:00 PM

stay healthy...

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/3/2022 9:17:00 AM

Oh, I do work very hard at it, but sometimes it's hard to do.

Pashang Salehi
Date: 4/2/2022 4:54:00 PM

Getting old has its own problems, my friend... stay young

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/2/2022 8:13:00 AM

That could be, Pashang. Problems somehow develop between my brain and my fingers. Could be an Alien Hand Syndrome! (chuckling)

Indiana Shaw

Date: 4/1/2022 4:33:00 PM

Suffer from it all the time, Milt's, hands, eyes and mind all in misplaced time, so proofreading is a must, in a foreign language a drop of a verb can be the difference between, I love you, or I kill you . . . *o*

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/1/2022 7:06:00 PM

That's so true. Even in my commenting I have to go back and proofread because I'll leave out a word or have an embarrassing grammatical error. I have found if I misspell a word once, I continue to do so afterwards unless I correct it immediately.