How to embarrass yourself and have no one to blame

None of us are perfect of course. Sometimes we're less perfect than others. I just finished up the edits for In the Hands of Gods and really if not for my own sloppiness I think the edits would have been limited to just a handful of tightening up the language. Instead it was 21 pages of head-desk.

1) I don't know why I personally never found this while doing my research (since I surely did do it) But Lares is plural and I should have been using the term Lar...okay then, I feel like a total idiot.

2) I knew that I typed this story on two different computers and that one of them uses a different quotation formation. They look more like the 'text' version than the word doc version. I THOUGHT i had done a replace all before sending this story out. I must have done it for the double quotes alone. I had to replace every single apostrophe. how freaking embarrassing (I actually apologized for that one)

3) I could have sworn (as could several other people my age) that I was taught that if a word ended in an S you didn't put 's on the end to show possession. You just use an apostrophe. I asked my English prof friend and she said that's only true if it's NOT a name. So again with the red-faced head-desking.

But in the end, the edits are done and the moral of the story is, you don't have to be perfect to sell a story. The story just has to be engaging enough. The other stuff is an easy fix. (though I need to figure out commas. I swear I can't remember all the rules. I want to look better. I want to BE better)

also i need to figure out how to make sticky posts. I want to have a running tab at the top of my journal so people can find out where to find my stories