orthographic grump

[ritaxis]

There does not seem to be any comprehensible or halfway consistent rule about which final rs or ls get doubled when adding ed or ing.

If I ever had a full list memorized, it is lost now, and I find I must use a spellcheck and hope for the best.

I've been composing lj posts about my work every day but then I forget to actually write and post them. But I am working on the novel: just not at the computer. For some reason I am doing my best work on it in my bedside notebook, which is not the usual way I work. It's not hard to write a thousand words of it this way before I get up in the morning.

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[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I read a lot of American SF and fantasy fiction and nearly always traveling is used in preference to travelling. It's definitely 'travelling' in the UK and that's my comfort zone.