by Trevor Mayes | Oct 16, 2019 | Grammar, Pet Peeves, Proofreading, Rants, Words, Writing |
Week 4 The final week of pet peeves! Again, these aren’t just words or expressions that bug me for some reason — they’re mistakes I see so commonly when proofreading that they’ve become pet peeves of mine. For the big finale, I have not one but...
by Trevor Mayes | Oct 9, 2019 | Action Lines, Modern Craft, Pet Peeves, Proofreading, Writing |
Week 3 This is a good one. And by good one, I mean a mistake I see all the time that drives me crazy. There’s mistakes See anything wrong with the above subheading? It should be: “There are mistakes,” right? You wouldn’t say, “There is...
by Trevor Mayes | Sep 24, 2019 | Pet Peeves, Proofreading, Writing |
Week 2 Before I jump into Week 2’s pet peeve, I need to make a point of clarification. These items aren’t simply preferences; they are mistakes. Full stop. The reason they’re pet peeves of mine is because I see them so often in scripts. Such is the...
by Trevor Mayes | Sep 17, 2019 | Pet Peeves, Writing |
Week 1 I proofread a lot of scripts. Some mistakes I find drive me batty. And if they drive me batty, odds are they’ll do the same to other readers (i.e. gatekeepers). None irk me more than this pet peeve, but I’ve already written about that one. So for...
by Trevor Mayes | Jul 26, 2011 | Formatting, Pet Peeves, Rants |
One of My Pet Peeves I don’t know why, but I’d say over 75% of the amateur scripts I read spell iPod in some bizarre way. Some examples: I-Pod I Pod IPOD ipod Ipod I-pod I’d be curious to hear from other readers about their experiences. But for me,...
