My Eyes Bleed

The worst part of getting a book published, in my opinion, is the final proofreading step. The book's been edited and re-edited to the point you can't stand to look at it anymore, but you still have to sit down and read it from start to finish to pick up left-over issues. This step makes me want to slack off, but it's too important.

Normally you're looking for typos, wrong italics, improper formatting, and anything else that may have sneaked past the editors' eyes. But sometimes you end up finding a plot hole in chapter three and scrambling to figure out a quick fix... Not that this ever happens to me, of course not. *innocent look goes here*

Once this step is done, you never have to look at the book again if you don't want to. Yay! ;)