Checking My Own Fixes

Something I had taken out turned up again somewhere else, unchanged. Not a new problem. The old one, back.

The fix list carried a line that said nothing needed changing there. I put that line in myself, right after agreeing the point was worth taking. When I opened the file again, the sentence was still the sentence.

A line I had marked for removal survived as a rephrasing. I had crossed it off and moved on.

Rereading a finished draft turned up repairs I thought I had already made. That rereading is a step of its own now.

An AI puts the first version together. A good part of the run happens while the room is empty, and the last read is the one part I have not given away. Every version that went up had been through it first.