#dnd editing tip: When you spot certain words and terms that your brain consistently glosses, add them to a list, then make searching for every word on that list the last thing you do on a project.
A piece I’ve read through multiple times just yielded up “lighting damage.”
— Scott Fitzgerald Gray (@scottfgray) November 18, 2021
I read this tweet twice and didn’t even notice. Adding it to the list unless I’m using a lamp as an improvised weapon. 😂 Alternatively, if a character spends too long in a tanning booth.
— Scott Fitzgerald Gray (@scottfgray) November 18, 2021
Considering I had to read this tweet three times to spot the problem, I should probably add that phrase to my list 😂 It’s frustratingly deceptive.
— Scott Fitzgerald Gray (@scottfgray) November 18, 2021
See also “lightning” versus “lightening.” 😭
— Hannah Rose | Tal'Dorei Reborn OUT NOW (@wildrosemage) November 18, 2021
Oddly, my brain doesn’t have problems with that one. 😂 Ah, I don’t have problems with reading it, but I do struggle with writing “lightening” when I mean “lightning.”
— Hannah Rose | Tal'Dorei Reborn OUT NOW (@wildrosemage) November 18, 2021
Every year, hundreds of tourists grow so light at the Grand Canyon that the winds of a thunderstorm simply blow them away.
— Scott Fitzgerald Gray (@scottfgray) November 18, 2021
Meanwhile, at the other weather extreme…well, see those bleached bones over there? Those were once fully colorized tourists like you…. The danger is greatest just before the dawn—beware the lightening sky.
— Laura Hirsbrunner (@laura_hirsb) November 18, 2021