Simply put — Misspellings are a quick way to lose readership.

I am guilty of typing faster than I think and thinking faster than I type.

Most blog interfaces include a check spelling option.  The problem with many (if not all) of these is that you must actively engage the spell check for it to work.  So, you’ve finished your masterpiece…worked so hard…it took much longer than you’d planned…and you hit submit and walk away (mentally, emotionally, and/or physically) from the piece.

One thing that has saved my spelling-impaired ass on innumerable occasions is the auto spell check feature found on Mozilla Firefox.

Rather than using the standard Internet Explorer, I downloaded the free software for Firefox.  It runs with nearly the same layout as Internet Explorer, so you don’t need to learn a new format.  Firefox has some really helpful add-in tools (like an FTP tool called FireFTP that helped me avoid using the old-school “run” command to access my company’s FTP site).

Now, automatically I get the red squiggle if I screw up my “i” before “e” – and prevent a reader from getting hung up on spelling rather than receive the message I’m attempting to send.

Of course, this isn’t fool-proof – you still must READ what you WRITE — but using Firefox keeps me from inadvertently posting as many typos as I could have.

This tool is not limited to blogging – it also checks as you post on Twitter and Facebook!!

Just a suggestion from one quick-posting writer to another.

Read me at Modern Super Momma, follow me on Twitter or join my Facebook fan page – I promise I won’t mind at all!  And I so won’t get mad if you leave a few comments laying around either!