Wednesday, February 23, 2011

UGGGH Editing the worst work in the world!

I don't have much to say about sailing today because the manuscript came back from the editor around noon yesterday and I have spent sixteen hours going through it already and I'm only half way there. There are a gazillion little suggestions and a few bigger ones but it takes forever to check and approve or reject each one.  Most of the problems are spacing problems and I think that occurred because I wrote the Nightmare Voyage on Open Office and switched it to Microsoft just before sending it to the editor.  Big mistake, as I think the switch caused spaces to be added and subtracted, because when I wrote Nightmare Voyage, I thought I paid pretty good attention to that.  I also swapped some commas and semicolons and by the way, when you use the word toward, it's toward not towards.  I have a bad habit of adding that s at the end.  Am I bad???

Thank Goodness I have a sunset sail tonight... I need a break.  I think I'll go to work. LOL

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