a competent author doesn't randomly choose
Ah well, there's the problem. Not all are competent. Or care enough to differentiate, or even to be consistent.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Beverly - May 03, 2010 10:09:36 am PDT #3306 of 6693
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Barb - May 03, 2010 10:13:34 am PDT #3307 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
Amy's absolutely right, Connie-- CE is simply doing her job. What I found interesting about this particular instance is how she chose to point it out, because she's been very good about phrasing things as questions, i.e. writing in the margin "AU: are you certain this is the word you want?" or something to that effect.
With this particular case, she actually wrote something definitive:
"AU: he's referred to as Dr. throughout but it's never explained why. He's not an MD. Is it because he's got a Ph.D. in education? Normally, Ph.D.s don't use the title Dr."
Which pinged me slightly because it seemed to be implying I was wrong. Which is me probably just overreacting because as I said in Natter, copyedits have a way of making one feel monumentally stupid. In this case, however, neither of us is wrong-- it's just my MS and I have good reason for using it in that manner and it's not technically incorrect, so I just noted it and moved on.
Allyson - May 03, 2010 1:05:12 pm PDT #3308 of 6693
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Here, at JPL, everyone is referred to as Dr. on all the stuff I need to look at. Individuals prefer one or the other, but on all the document templates, it's Dr.
sj - May 03, 2010 1:46:20 pm PDT #3309 of 6693
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Congratulations, Allyson!!!
-t - May 03, 2010 2:06:55 pm PDT #3310 of 6693
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo, Allyson! And to Plus One Publishing, this should be good for both!
(X-posted with Natter)
Gudanov - May 04, 2010 5:50:09 am PDT #3311 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
Very little progress as a result of spending entirely too much time on the Time-Warner tech-support line.
I've started into chapter 12 of 67 and I'm down 6,000 words.
Gudanov - May 04, 2010 6:44:53 am PDT #3312 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm also getting concerned that chapters 35-67 are considerably weaker than 1-34 though I pretty much only have my own opinion on that. One problem with being the author is that I don't really know how it reads without knowing everything that is going to happen.
Barb - May 04, 2010 9:54:52 am PDT #3313 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
I'm getting a slight perverse amusement that the one love scene in this manuscript is the least marked up of any.
Either I'm really good or the CE just sort of skimmed on past...
Gudanov - May 04, 2010 5:25:43 pm PDT #3314 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm mostly cutting and rephrasing and not trying to fix the finer points, but already I'm starting to fear punctuation.
Gudanov - May 05, 2010 5:06:53 am PDT #3315 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I did a bit of editing and added a blog post with an example of my edits. The next couple of posts will be explaining why I made the edits with the caveat that I am far from an expert, though I have learned tons since I started.
It's going to be a long time before I'm done yet.