Apple has the most ridiculously aggressive spellchecker in the world, to the point where I feel like it is the equivalent of an eighty-year old nun whacking my knuckles with a ruler every time I intentionally write a misspelled or made up word – which, as an aspiring sci-fi author, I NEED TO DO!
Anyone ever experience this? Any advice?
Bookshelf Battle 
HOLD OUT YOUR HANDS! no running in the halls!
That’s pretty much the Apple Spellchecker
You should be able to adjust the database of legit words so that it doesn’t whack you in the forehead every time you type a made-up word. I could describe in bloody detail how to do this in MS Word, or Libre office and Open Office, but Mac… Well, I’m too poor to get there. Incidentally, this is a super funny thing to do to a co-worker. You simply change the auto-correct fro a word like ‘the’ or ‘and’, to something like: ‘Dave is awesome and the’ or just ‘Dave is awesome and’. So that when they type in those word, they’re automatically fixed.
Word will autocorrect once, maybe twice, but eventually it gets the hint. Mac Pages is stubborn and won’t budge – on its own, anyway, thus far I’ve been too lazy to try to adjust settings etc.
I HAVE THIS PROBLEM TOO. Not that I’m typing made up words all the time, but it corrects stupid things. I’m a big Stephen King fan, so Pet Sematary comes up a lot and it ALWAYS corrects to Pet Seminary. Ummmmm…no, sorry. It’ll also take out extra letters I add for emphasis (i.e. whoooo boy—it just changed it to “whoa” boy) but it’ll WAIT a second before it does it, so I think it’ll have bypassed it, and THEN it’ll change.
This post reminded me that I wanted to turn it off, and I just did, and here’s how:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > Uncheck the box that says “correct text automatically”
Voila!
Thanks! I will have to try this. You mentioned you schedule posts ahead and I do too. I have a fun post coming out in awhile where I basically wrestle with Apple Spellchecker. Hopefully I’ll have used your advice to fix it by then.
Looking forward to it!