User blog comment:Nausiated/Writing Tips/@comment-867021-20121115021101/@comment-61022-20121115191441

Thanks. I was thinking of doing a series of blog posts giving advice on how to write stuff.

Ah, "it's" and "its" I think my main problem is that I am a lousy self-editor for the most part. Other times it's becuase I type really fast (I clock somewhere around 90 words per minute last time I was tested about a decade ago) I've found that while in my mind I've got gramatical mechanics and spelling pretty well, but my fingers have developed some reflext memory from my most common mistakes (which were prevalent when I was learning how to type) its, it's, your and you're are big ones. I know how to use them properly but my hands betray me all the time.

My username is another example. Nauseated is spelled wrong. The incorrect spelling is a stay over that I've got licked, but when I create user accounts that use nicknames it's an old staple for me since I was 13 so I purposley spell it wrong in those cases.