If you ever get a chance to see the drafts of published novels, you will realize that writers are some of the worst spellers around. It sounds like a goofy thing to assert, but I can't get over the rotten grammar I've seen in the drafts of popular and great writers.
Amen.
Wow!
We’re living in a parallel universe.
I was hired as a proofreader for a local branch of a huge publishing house right after high school [but I can’t recall the name] and a week before I was to start, they moved the branch to another state.
I was *really* good at spotting errors and now I always have to restrain myself from posting a “spelling/grammar lame” during a FR flame war.
[I’m usually able to control it...but not always]...;]