Feb. 3rd, 2006

Rain

Feb. 3rd, 2006 08:33 am
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"Mud Season" this year is gonna be a royal bitch.

2/3 through my first pass on the DRAGON'S TEETH copy-edit. I'm also finding a few "line edit" things in pencil rather than ink -- don't know if those are the Nice Editor Lady getting in a second shot, or what. Most of them are okay, but a couple I think I'm likely to "stet." I still think she took some of the bite out of Dierdre in WINTER OAK. Thus do authors eternally kvetch and kvell. My words, after all, are sacred and universally sublime...or some "s" word, anyway.
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First pass through the copy-edits finished, little bits of paper added here and there by request. ("This sentence is fuzzy..." Hey, some people _like_ fuzzy sentences. Scritch them behind the ears and they purr...)

Now I need to go through and examine all those red-pen hyphens, breaks, and such with a prejudiced eye. Like, when Maine-speak uses "damnfool" as an adjective, it is _indeed_ one word. As with "half-brother" versus "half brother," "damnfool" and "damn fool" have different meanings.

And then Wife needs to read through the thing and tell me the places where I'm wrong, wrong, wrong.

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