Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 87
May 12, 2010
Wednesday ALREADY???
Time flies when you're not having fun. Or rather, time for doing what you want flies away while you feel mired forever in what it not fun.
Or something like that.
Anyway, it's Wednesday; yesterday was so hot and muggy we finally gave up and turned on the AC. I slept through the night without waking up in a pool of sweat. That was good. Tonight, choir practice. In between finishing the last bits for the package of copy edits that goes back to Production and hauling the mass of stuff to ...
Or something like that.
Anyway, it's Wednesday; yesterday was so hot and muggy we finally gave up and turned on the AC. I slept through the night without waking up in a pool of sweat. That was good. Tonight, choir practice. In between finishing the last bits for the package of copy edits that goes back to Production and hauling the mass of stuff to ...
From Twitter 05-11-2010
09:56:03: 56 pages of copy edits to go, 56 pages of copy edits...mark one down, don't pass it around, 55 pages of copy edits to go...
09:57:47: Actually I'm listening to Stanford's Symphony #1 and Irish Rhapsody--over and over. CD ends, I can get up and move for a little.
10:00:59: Yellow-billed cuckoo calling in back yard...that muffled "clough...clough...clough...clough...clough-clough." So shy...no pix.
13:36:18: Copy edits: down to cleaning up the "hmmm...think more later" pages. Then...
May 11, 2010
Copy Edits
To every writer comes the day when the copy edited manuscript arrives from the publisher, either as a large stack of pages or as an electronic version, with the copy editor's 'corrections' all over it. Usually, the writer is supposed to check those corrections and accept them or "stet" them in far fewer days than feels possible.
This is particularly true with longer books (raising hand--like mine!) and when the copy editor's idea of how to write a book differs from the writer's own...
This is particularly true with longer books (raising hand--like mine!) and when the copy editor's idea of how to write a book differs from the writer's own...
From Twitter 05-10-2010
07:27:46: Snatched from @robinmckinley: Salon's Laura Miller review of Carr's book: Yes, the internet is rotting your brain: http://bit.ly/c2jB9f
08:39:51: New post up at http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/ with critter pictures. (Now back to copy edits.)
12:08:35: Copy edits, copy edits...I am so TIRED of copy edits. FedEx says I can ship air overnight Wed. for Thurs. del. Many pages still to go.
12:10:00: I also want copy of ms. bc/ w this many stets, the proofs may or may not have them...
May 10, 2010
From Twitter 05-09-2010
18:08:38: Mother's Day so far: up at 6 am, to city to sing two services (v. short of singers), flubbed 2nd anthem 2nd time, to home, copy-edits.
18:09:31: M- did give me card, saw Emmanuel Axe, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma concert on PBS, so not all bad. Now back to copy-edits.
18:24:46: If you like miniatures, you've got to look at this Bag End: http://preview.tinyurl.com/y4yexbx Incredible detail & workmanship.
18:32:57: Yesterday--found species new to the list. Dunno which of two closely...
May 9, 2010
From Twitter 05-08-2010
11:16:03: Copy edits go on FOREVER. Want to go to Wm-Sonoma and buy new mixer on sale. Can't. Should credit CE with saving me money, right? Wrong.
11:24:20: Wm-Sonoma calling like Siren. Want red Kitchen-Aid mixer. Want sautee pan.
Want is not need, I tell myself. W-S "When I'm calling youuuu"
11:25:28: Back to work. First earn it, THEN spend it.
13:24:40: So--called Wm-Sonoma and they only have B & W colors left. I want RED. Even to save money, not buying color I don't want. Another...
May 8, 2010
From Twitter 05-07-2010
07:56:06: Morning after swordplay: geez, Moon, don't you have ANY sense? Did you have to start with the heavy one? (Yes, smirk.) Neck's stiff. So?
13:57:38: Hot & muggy. Copy edits with fan blowing gently on my back. Still sticky. Want that cool front here NOW.
22:05:32: 20 chapters of copy edits checked and marked. 19 to go.
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May 7, 2010
From Twitter 05-06-2010
10:01:17: Farrier came: both horses trimmed. Mac tried it on; got smacked. Agent called--moderate good news on Oath sales. Now: copy edits.
21:35:34: Picked up rapier for the first time in almost a year. Still know which is the pointy end. Still fun. Got touch on D-.
21:41:36: Shared joys of copy-edit-checking with fencing group when not fencing. Much hilarity ensued. 20 more pages done.
21:42:44: And 20 more pages need to be done by bedtime at midnight, so...away I go. Made lap desk...
May 6, 2010
From Twitter 05-05-2010
21:40:16: Friend's gift of dark chocolate (G&B's 85% cocoa) saved me from collapse while working on copy edits and got me through choir practice.
21:42:31: Temp in the shade this afternoon was 98F. 84F on bank sign driving home at 9:30 pm.
21:46:09: Little current of cooler air just eased in the window and cooled my bare feet. 10:45pm Need sleep. Need more time with copy edits.
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May 5, 2010
From Twitter 05-04-2010
10:20:32: Copy edits. Nothing in my day but copy edits upon copy edits. At such times always wonder why I write long books...
17:18:42: Christian fundamentalist & anti-gay activist caught returning from Europe with "rent-boy". http://preview.tinyurl.com/33getye
22:46:03: First water lily of the year, this afternoon (pale yellow) and nose-cone of another poking up.
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