After several hundred pages of STET, a girl starts to wonder if it’s actually her, and she’s doing something really wrong. I’m not, but man. One’s faith sours. There’ve been a couple places where part of the page has been blanked out, so I’ve had to ask for new scans. Apparently those pages are were post-it flags with comments from the CE were missed in the copying. My editor’s assistant said it was just as well I couldn’t read them, because they’d only made my editor’s blood pressure rise. I…
for pity’s sake
What am I doing up? I gotta say, though, this homeopathic cold cure I was given at Pi-Con (by a shaman, no less) works goddamned miracles. He gave me a couple pills each of arnica and belladonna which are diluted to the point of having no recognizable, er, well, poison, but which for whatever obscure magical reason retain or obtain a healing quality during the reduction process. The god-awful cold I had that weekend was 90% better the next day. I’ve been taking, through the course of this one, arnica…
copy edits & octocon
A hundred pages done. Out of those 100, there are, I think, two pages upon which nothing is stetted. Of those two, one of them had only one CE change and the other had maybe three. Most had…far more than that, so it was a hundred very long pages. 321 to go. I basically have to have this done Thursday so it can be photocopied and go into the mail on Friday (which reminds me, I need to figure out where I can go in Cork to UPS/FedEx/rush-mail a manuscript…
going to be here forever…
After an hour and a half of work, I’m on page 17 of 421 on the copy edits for HOUSE OF CARDS. Unfortunately, I’ve gotten the same copy editor I did last time, and she and I clearly have different writing styles. The unfortunate part is she’s corrected a great deal of material which is simply not to her liking, rather than being actively wrong or awkward. (There are things that are wrong or awkward, and I am looking at those seriously and, I think, without prejudice, although touches on…
punishment for enjoying myself :)
I’m pretty sure the punishment for saying I was having fun writing is getting two sets of copy edits to do in two weeks. I knew about the TQB ones; I had three weeks’ warning that they’d be coming in. I did not know about the HOUSE OF CARDS ones; I got email late Thursday night saying “We’re sending you copy edits and can we have them back Wednesday?” The answer there is, “No.” :) I spent the train ride up to Dublin, and a good part of Friday afternoon…