I love blogs.  Usually light hearted ones that make me laugh, not taking themselves too seriously, but hitting on important life issues.  However, I have one nit picking annoyance with all of them – they are obviously not proofread.

Is it too much to ask for a blogger to actually read what they write before they upload it to the world?  If you don’t love what you wrote enough to reread it and catch all the mistakes, or at least most of them, then why would you think anyone out there would want to read it either?

Is it a badge of honor?  “See, I wrote all this off the cuff and didn’t even proofread it, because I am that good!”  Is it just that the world nowadays just doesn’t care about that sort of thing, so they do proofread, but they don’t actually fix stuff?

I write fiction novels.  Seven hundred words is a slow day for me.  Yet I proofread them over and over, enjoying the story as I catch little mistakes, incomplete sentences,  awkward phrasings, and hopefully find improvements to the plot.

Perhaps I just enjoy editing as much as writing and that’s my special gift.

Or perhaps the school systems of the world have failed us.  (Okay, that’s not really a perhaps, but, just sayin’)

Or maybe its just that I still have a piece of me that knows my Mom might read this and I don’t want to disappoint her with bad grammar, misspellings, and incorrect sentence structure.  (Hi, Mom!)

All that said, I have been excited about “journaling out loud” for quite some time now.  But since the world no longer exists for simple html and my “own my own world” attitude to coding, unless I go to college and get a masters in coding – and continue to study all the “new” and “improved” changes, updates and secrets to it, well then, I have to suffer through the “simple” process of setting up wordpress on my server (okay, my admin guy did that for me) and troubleshooting it to the point where – if I’m lucky – this gets posted on the actual web and someone can read it.

And since you’re reading this now, it’s happened!  Woo hoo!  I look forward to annoying you as much as possible.  🙂

So, CherJ’s here.  Feel free to correct my grammar, spelling, etc, since I’ve opened pandora’s box by complaining about everyone else!  Make it a game!  I’ve got tough skin.

PS – Words like “Fufferhead” that I make up don’t count.  I can be weird; that’s not incorrect grammar or spelling.