I stumbled on a neat trick for the finding-the-mistakes stage of writing.
Do a search for a common word like "look" or "back" or "when", words that you use quite a lot. The point is not to remove or replace them, but to use the search as a way of skipping randomly through the document. At each point, look at the paragraph surrounding that word.
For some reason when I do that, as opposed to YET ANOTHER read through from the start, the mistakes really jump out at me.
Do a search for a common word like "look" or "back" or "when", words that you use quite a lot. The point is not to remove or replace them, but to use the search as a way of skipping randomly through the document. At each point, look at the paragraph surrounding that word.
For some reason when I do that, as opposed to YET ANOTHER read through from the start, the mistakes really jump out at me.