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Bev, what my copy editor needs is to try and understand that, if you can trust me to write a publishable novel based on the lyrics in the first place, you can probably trust me to post the right lyrics.

This sort of thing infuriates me, and it has nothing to do with ego. The problem is that it adds time and trouble to an already long editing process, and it isn't necessary.

Tell someone you're anti-homophonic, and watch their brains blank out.

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if you can trust me to write a publishable novel based on the lyrics in the first place, you can probably trust me to post the right lyrics...

Sure. Like anyone in New York has ever trusted anyone, about anything.

The true motto of NY: "Check your trust at the border."

I am reading a "note" over and over. Editors of text do not use marks which mean things to programmers. It all seems to be about the layout of the frackin' thing.

Lay it out as you will. Just send dollars.

I am not kidding. I'm staring at these glyphs and thinking ... "Ah! They are dialing a StarGate!"

Gus, I feel your pain. I dealt with that crap last year and the guy wrote it all on post-it notes. And 99% of them were layout questions.

I have never written "Not the writer's purview" so many times before, and I'm damned if I ever intend to again.

Write them back, "I'm the content, you're the CSS, bucko."

He called me "funnier than a monkey in a crack house, and twice as twisted."

Now THIS is a t-shirt!

Don't get him started on the T-shirts again.

It's all fun and "why don't we set the whole thing in Lucida Bold!!" until an author gets cranky. Generally speaking, it's safer to ask the author for an opinion, and get none, than not to ask and get lots.

I have a ton of edits to do, and everything is feeling unweildy, I'm getting confused between versions. I think I need to break it up into individual essays again or I'll have a meltdown.

How do you all keep your manuscripts organized?