Anju Gattani's Blog - Posts Tagged "re-reading"
Over The Moon Edits & Editor!!
Hi,
So I've got the Decatur Book Festival this weekend and the final edits from my copy editor and she's thrilled! It's over! I'm thinking she's thrilled it's over!
I fail to understand how she could love re-reading and re-working a high-octane scene that I must have read--what 25--times now?
It got to the point yesterday afternoon where I couldn't think of the right sentence. Yes, one sentence! And dozed off in my chair. I woke up fifteen minutes later, saw the laptop beaming away at me - basically waiting for me to fix that damn sentence - and I completed my nap instead.
Then this morning I get a lovely email from my editor saying the last 2 scenes I emailed yesterday are good to go. It's done! For her. For me... it means working on the manuscript again - the added bonus of 2 documents this time on 2 split windows - and hunting with a microscope again for track changes and issues.
If I don't use a microscope I won't see the errors, right? That's what half of me says. The other half says... you didn't persist with this for 9+ years for nothing. You persisted on making it the best. You're almost there. Now get in that chair and start to work!
Oh well!
So I've got the Decatur Book Festival this weekend and the final edits from my copy editor and she's thrilled! It's over! I'm thinking she's thrilled it's over!
I fail to understand how she could love re-reading and re-working a high-octane scene that I must have read--what 25--times now?
It got to the point yesterday afternoon where I couldn't think of the right sentence. Yes, one sentence! And dozed off in my chair. I woke up fifteen minutes later, saw the laptop beaming away at me - basically waiting for me to fix that damn sentence - and I completed my nap instead.
Then this morning I get a lovely email from my editor saying the last 2 scenes I emailed yesterday are good to go. It's done! For her. For me... it means working on the manuscript again - the added bonus of 2 documents this time on 2 split windows - and hunting with a microscope again for track changes and issues.
If I don't use a microscope I won't see the errors, right? That's what half of me says. The other half says... you didn't persist with this for 9+ years for nothing. You persisted on making it the best. You're almost there. Now get in that chair and start to work!
Oh well!
