I've been deep in copy edits since Thursday evening, a marathon of staring at marked-up manuscript pages and trying to ensure that it's all correct....or, if I disagree with a copy editor's mark, whether it's worth "stetting" or not. For those of you not writers, to "stet" a mark is to say "Let it stand" (as it was.)
There are standard ways to mark manuscripts, but about two in the morning, if you're not normally a night person, you start making mistakes. Since you can't erase any marks (their
Published on July 26, 2009 21:26