Wrong use of homophones

Maryn said:

This woah spelling is utter nonsense.

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I agree. Editors responding at Northwest Editors Guild agree. "Writing Explained" (below) agrees.

https://writingexplained.org/whoa-or-woah-difference

We're all going to block Maryn anyway.

Chase said:

I didn't catch my protagonist walking between "rose of chairs" 'til the galley proof.

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I dunno ... throw in a typo and you've got Rose of Charis, exiled princess turned rebel leader out to reclaim her throne. Throw in a dragon and you've got a YA fantasy trilogy. Make the dragon a shapeshifter and you've got a paranormal romance novel. (I may write that one myself. )

I love it when I have typos. They can lead to some great ideas. Thanks, Chase!

My personal favorite hails from an actual published novel from back around the '80s. The indignant king proclaimed, "I will not allow them to set food in my city!" I'm pretty sure both he and the author meant to say "set foot," but I can't help feeling sorry for all those starving subjects...

I meant to write, "A green beam shot out of the hat".

Instead I wrote...

"A green bean shot out of the hat."

I got a good chuckle out of that.

Talking of homophones, years ago one of our children wrote a family email, and meant to say something about her being "special" (it was probably approaching her birthday), but instead wrote "spatial". Spellcheck let it go, and it's become a family joke.

Not exactly the same but I wrote a violent ending to a recent story and had the MC throw a Molotov cocktail, I accidentally wrote Mazel tov cocktail. "Congratulations, you're dying!"

my MC's best friend is named Hugo. When trying to type "Hugo" I accidentally typed to fast and got "Hugpoo". It's funny and I'm immature.

Someone asked for a critique over at one of the subreddits for writing, and he confused me when he was talking about the souls of his feet. It was a fantasy after all, so maybe his feet have separate souls? I had to ask if he meant soles.

He said he'd proofread that passage more times than he'd care to remember and never saw that mistake, which makes me a little paranoid about homophones in my own writing.

Kerry56 said:

Someone asked for a critique over at one of the subreddits for writing, and he confused me when he was talking about the souls of his feet. It was a fantasy after all, so maybe his feet have separate souls? I had to ask if he meant soles.

He said he'd proofread that passage more times than he'd care to remember and never saw that mistake, which makes me a little paranoid about homophones in my own writing.

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I read a book where some people's souls were in their feet (their soles). It was the 3rd book in the Miss Peregrine's Home trilogy. I thought it was clever.

Oh gosh. I just wrote "Dorknob" instead of "Doorknob". It's only one letter off, but it makes the word a million times more hilarious. Worse of all, it was in a high-intensity rescue mission scene. I'm so..dorky (pun intended) Heh. Dorknob. I crack myself up.