What Readers Hate Most in Books

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4. From a proofreading standpoint, it's so easy to miss typos

I've read and re-read a manuscript and STILL missed typos. Our brains automatically fill in missing letters or words because it's focused on meaning, and if it can grasp the meaning of a sentence, despite a missing word, it just moves right on past it. Think about how often in our daily lives we write an email or a text without noticing a typo. Imagine how easy it is do with a 100,000-word manuscript.

Spellcheck doesn't help when an entire word is missing, or you've written a homonym instead.