Larriane Wills a.k.a. Larion Wills

Writing a blog for someone who can pour out a 100,000 word manuscriptought to be easy. So why do I find it so hard? I've pondered thatquestion every time I put off committing myself to having a regularblog, not that I don't have ideas for one, usually when I'm doingsomething that doesn't take a lot of brain power. Boring stuff likecleaning house. Do I get graded for grammar in a blog? Ummmm, maybethat's why I put it off, dreading the time it will take to do acomplete edit. let's see, there's already an incomplete sentence andone that rambles breathlessly. Oh, and there's a sentence that didn'tstart with a capitol. Or is that capital? Once into an editing modeit's hard not to think red ink even when I'm reading a book publishedby a well known company. Read one today, (actually finished it when Itook rests between doing boring stuff like house work) and was amazedby the errors I saw. I see more and more which makes me wonder are thebig publishing houses cutting corners by cutting back on editing? I'vehave heard that more errors are occurring because so much editing isdone electronically now. Is quality suffering for convenience and cost?Finding an error in a big publishers book used to be rare. In the bookI just finished, and no I won't tell you the publisher, there had to beat least twenty and that was in continuity, words missed, wrong wordsand isn't including punctuation. They weren't simple little errorseither. Is it just me becoming more aware since I became an editormyself or are those errors becoming more and more frequently andglaring? What's your opinion?