Happy Saturday!
This is a bit embarrassing, but I wanted to send out a correction to everyone who reads Game File over email and therefore wouldn’t have seen an update I made last night to Friday’s big Sucker Punch story.
When I sent that newsletter yesterday evening, I had accidentally written that I’d conducted my interview with the Sucker Punch co-founder Brian Fleming on Friday, September 12. Total brain fart there. We conducted the interview on Monday, September 15. Doesn’t really change the story, but still a poor error to make.
I fixed the date in the online version last night, but I didn’t want to wait until Tuesday’s edition of Game File to notify Game File’s email/app readership.
How’d I get that detail, of all things, wrong? I’m going to chalk it up to it being a long week and to the start of one week blending into the end of the last one.
I also find that, when fact-checking my own work, it’s easiest to overlook the details that don’t seem to need checking. So, I spent a chunk of yesterday confirming dates in Sucker Punch’s history, consulting archived editions of 20th century print magazines, checking stories from the past with the people involved, re-listening to audio of the interview to ensure I was quoting my interviewee accurately, but the day of the week I said the interview happened? When I was re-reading my draft prior to publishing, it didn’t even make me do a double-take. However, while I was putting my daughter to bed last night, I suddenly realized, in horror, that I made one of the weirdest mistakes of my career. Fixed it as soon as she was in dreamland.
Sorry about that…
Back next week with more newsletters—and renewed vigor to accurately remember when I’ve done what I’ve done!
Reminds me of the time I wrote NPYD instead of NYPD in a college newspaper. Got past another editor too haha. And it was in a headline nonetheless.