Dictionaries are MORE IMPORTANT than spellchecker software.
It is not sufficient to merely be sure that the word you use in your story is a real word, it must be the RIGHT word.
It is one thing to say, perhaps in a story, that a professional geneologist found something interesting in your family tree.
It is something quite different to say, in a story: "a gynecologist looked up her grandma and found a Cherokee grandfather."
This public service announcement and brain-bleach moment brought to you by Beta-Readers for A Literate Tomorrow...
It is not sufficient to merely be sure that the word you use in your story is a real word, it must be the RIGHT word.
It is one thing to say, perhaps in a story, that a professional geneologist found something interesting in your family tree.
It is something quite different to say, in a story: "a gynecologist looked up her grandma and found a Cherokee grandfather."
This public service announcement and brain-bleach moment brought to you by Beta-Readers for A Literate Tomorrow...
