Game World Phenomenology

I'm doing my own proofreading, it's a bit disconcerting but it seems to be working well. I do it in three steps: First I looked at the manuscript using InstaText (for spelling, grammar, and tone), then I slowly read a hard copy, and today I read a new, revised hard copy in a way that's new to me. I loaded it into a screen reader (I use Microsoft's Immersive Reader through Canvas because I'm so used to Canvas). It's amazingly effective at catching small errors in spelling and wording - and I notice inconsistencies in the use of some terms. I listen with headphones and follow the manuscript with a red pen in my hand. I highly recommend this method, though not as a main proofreading method, but as a comfort when the need to reread the damn manuscript feels like a burden. In less than a week the manuscript goes to the printers, I'm on track!

 Back to writing and editing! In a week I will present something written for the first time in a seminar at my faculty. So I am working on the text I have written so far to make it better and more readable. A colleague gave me a tip about Instatext ( https://instatext.io/ ) and I think it is a very useful tool to improve my written language skills. It's not possible to integrate it with Scrivener, and it's not very good at handling footnotes - but it's good for editing my text. I also need to read some phenomenological readings to show where I am going, so a first pass with two scenes, one from Zelda and one from Mario, and three basic structures of phenomenology from Sokolowski's Introduction to Phenomenology. Every time I feel lost or do not know what to do next, I sit down and read something by Sokolowski or Gladden for an hour, and then my mind starts working again. They are very good books that make me think in the direction I want.