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What did you do about proofreading bits of your manuscript that you couldn't break apart into randomised, individual units? How did you make sure all your punctuation and grammar was correct? For example, placing commas appropriately in a sentence that only a human can understand. Surely this is also part of the proofreading process?

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I've been unclear. The chunks were randomized within the manuscript, but the words within the chunks were left in order.

I randomized the chunk-ordering so I got dropped into a different part of the story every few hundred words. This was sufficient to keep me from getting too involved in the narrative, while allowing me to read complete sentences, thereby being able to do the human-level stuff which you correctly point out is so important.

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