The Perils of Typing Even on New-fangled Laptops

I'm finally at the last stage of readying my book, Murder Is Always Evil, the first book in the Deane Island Mysteries Series, for publishing with Kindle Direct Publishing. That stage, unfortunately, is searching for typos and other errors in the manuscript. Microsoft Word is extremely helpful in this, especially compared to the reports I used to write for school using carbon paper in my portable typewriter, bought just for that purpose.

I've never been able to type well and I've always blamed it on my short, stubby fingers. Now, it seems, those same fingers perform even worse on my laptop. Every time I look at the results of my half page of laptop typing, I should cry, but the gibberish I come up with is too funny. Luckily, I know my book so well by this time I can usually figure out most of the words, except for the few times when I see a word that looks like this: "dartgiwf".

Me. Still using my old portable for my personal writing in the 1970's, with the help of my cat Ginger.

 Who would know the word I was supposed to type was: "startle?

I will eventually overcome and finish with a manuscript ready to publish. In the meantime, I'm enjoying most minutes of it, and hope to have the first couple of pages published right here on my blog, first. Stay tuned.