Once a typo is made, it can sometimes be hard to notice. Do you see the one in the above image? Photo via Pixabay/Free-Photos, typo introduce yours truly.

How to Copy Edit Yourself in 7 Steps

You will screw up. But this system will help you catch typos and gaffes before publication.

More than 30 years ago, while editor of my college newspaper, I made a tiny typo that resulted in a rather colossal blunder that haunts me still. We’d made an error in a story — particularly agonizing for a weekly publication given the gap between…