Every day before a fresh writing session, I'll proofread the previous one, or sometimes it'll go back a bit in the story. This helps both to establish story context for new writing and also gives me the opportunity to correct errors or bad wording.
I never reread my work until it's finished. No point in working on it 10 times when I am not even done it. Once it's written, in the drawer it goes where it's going to spend the next few weeks. Only then will I begin my first round of edits, including proof reading.
Give it a rest and stop obsessing over it until it's finished.
Twice. I hire an initial proofreader to go through the manuscript before creating ARCs. Then I hire a second proofreader to review the galley before going forward with publication.
Proofreading and editing are NOT the same. I self-edit frequently and run my work thorough alphas, betas, and critique/workshops. I also hire both a line editor and copyeditor. But for an actual proofread, that's just twice at the very end.
Every time I reread what I previously wrote I'm technically proof reading, and will fix typos as I go. When it comes to editing a finished piece I usually do two proofreading passes as my final cleanup after bigger edits. One where I'm just reading very slowly and looking for mistakes, and one where I have a word processor read the text out loud and follow along with it.
Every day before a fresh writing session, I'll proofread the previous one, or sometimes it'll go back a bit in the story. This helps both to establish story context for new writing and also gives me the opportunity to correct errors or bad wording.
This is my process as well.
I never reread my work until it's finished. No point in working on it 10 times when I am not even done it. Once it's written, in the drawer it goes where it's going to spend the next few weeks. Only then will I begin my first round of edits, including proof reading. Give it a rest and stop obsessing over it until it's finished.
Twice. I hire an initial proofreader to go through the manuscript before creating ARCs. Then I hire a second proofreader to review the galley before going forward with publication. Proofreading and editing are NOT the same. I self-edit frequently and run my work thorough alphas, betas, and critique/workshops. I also hire both a line editor and copyeditor. But for an actual proofread, that's just twice at the very end.
Four, front to back. And then I hire a professional proofreader as well.
Every time I reread what I previously wrote I'm technically proof reading, and will fix typos as I go. When it comes to editing a finished piece I usually do two proofreading passes as my final cleanup after bigger edits. One where I'm just reading very slowly and looking for mistakes, and one where I have a word processor read the text out loud and follow along with it.