Honestly I cannot say I have ever found editing to be fun until today. It will probably not be fun tomorrow or any other day for that matter. Today, however, was different.

I was working my way through the upcoming novel. Just the usual, correcting "the" into they or them or these. Found a "non" where none should be. The simple mistakes or lazy depending on how you look at it. Found a couple places where whole words were missing making the sentence totally unfathomable. Sometimes these give me problems simply because the omitted word is key to understanding what I was trying to say six months ago when I wrote it the first time.

The fun came into play when I read the following sentence:

"They stopped about midday to let the horses rest and eat themselves."

This one sentence makes little sense. It is absurd. Horses eating themselves? I read it many times. I knew I meant for the riders of said horses to eat some lunch, yet I couldn't bring myself to correct it right away. The more I read it the funnier it got. Of course this says loads about me, but eh, what the hell?

I finally changed it to reflect the story, however, I may change it back. I know it will be a hiccup in the road. Some inane things should be left in there original form. Would it kill the story? No. Would it garner criticism? Probably not. Would it be the proverbial eye sore? Maybe. Do I really care? Sigh, "yes."

It will stay corrected. But it was fun finding it. Those darn flesh eating horses...