#passproofs

What Are These Terrifying Beasts Called Pass Proofs?

So, when you publish traditionally you get this thing called First Pass Proofs.

What are these diabolical little things? Well, to understand that we have to take a tiny jaunt into the copyediting and proofreading world. Grab some snacks!

A Pass

This is when you go through your story and look for all the typos and mistakes and consistency errors. and redundancies.

The Proof

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