I love this. I would say that editing is actually my favorite part about writing. It's like the sculptor chipping away bits and pieces to uncover what's underneath.

I always think of the Truman Capote quote on editing...

Here's my personal editing process (when writing in Google Docs):

1. Run the spell-check function
2. Copy and paste the text into Grammarly (I find that it often catches errors that Google Docs doesn't.)
3. Make the changes to the document
4. Highlight the text and use my Mac's speech feature to "have it read" to me. Hearing it while I read along is super helpful.
5. Download it to Word and then use their spell check function.
6. Read/listen to it again.

This takes more than 5 minutes....so your post is awesome for making the process a little more efficient.

Our minds automatically fill in the blanks with what the text should say, not what it actually says.

This is such a great point...and it's so true! Hadn't thought of it that way, but that's exactly what happens when I quickly read through it on my own.