Every time an editor forgets to start their time-tracker or turn Track Changes on, a well-placed comma dies.
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Writing a navy setting, or naval-based space story? Watch out for stray primates.

Aye aye = "I understand and will comply"
Aye-aye = A Madagascan lemur.

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When in doubt, sketch it out. If you've got a complicated fight scene with lots of moving parts, it can help to map it out like a football plays diagram. Don't forget to add any specifics about the setting, like an oddly shaped couch or where the high ground is! You'd be surprised which errors can slip through in the heat of battle.

If you're a nerd like me, RPG minis on a hex grid work too!

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This is why I love my job. #AmEditing #Sweary #ScienceFiction #Fiction #SpellingGrammarAndPunctuation #GeckoTips

Just recommended one of my favorite accessibility checkers to a client whose color scheme might make their words hard for their users to read. Especially tricky when it's tiny rules text on cards in a game! That this tool has an eyedropper makes me happy. Try it here: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

#Accessibility #ColorScheme #GeckoTips #ColorBlind #Contrast #UserInterface #Design #AmProofreading #TTRPG

Why, hello there! I guess I'd better do the intro thing too.

I'm Kath Kirk, and I run Gecko Edit. Basically, my job is to help make the #Words gooder. You'll find me tooting about #Editing, #ConsciousLanguage, the #Craft of #Writing, #Editing #Conferences, #MSWord #Hacks, and whatever other stuff caught my #Focus that day. I'm #Neurodivergent and #Queer and I live halfway up a volcano in the Andes.

Also: #StetWalk, #AmReading, #GeckoTips, #WordsHavePower, #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #TTRPG

Why the gecko? Because if I'm doing my job right, I'm like a gecko on the wall of your story, quietly snapping up the errors, inconsistencies and missteps that bug your readers, so that they can immerse themselves in your world. #AmEditing #GeckoEdit #GeckoTips