Thanks a ton, erika!
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
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.
Allyson - Nov 29, 2011 12:23:28 pm PST #4973 of 6690
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
Typo Boy - Nov 29, 2011 1:07:22 pm PST #4974 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Minor grumble. If you are copy-editing a manuscript which is required to to conform with Chicago Style Manual, you should not have to put in an author query asking what 4(4) in a citation of a journal is. Chicago standard for Volume 4 Issue 4.
erikaj - Nov 29, 2011 2:28:02 pm PST #4975 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Any time!(French toast during the Renaissance)
Typo Boy - Nov 30, 2011 9:19:18 pm PST #4976 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Belated congrats to Holli.
Just finished finished first round of going over the copy-edited version of the global warming book. Because of this being kind of complicated non-fiction, had to check very carefully. They had copy-edited around 80,000 words using track changes, and I to look over every change, and If I want to reverse a change or make a further one, I had to leave track changes on, and add a comment to tell them why. So basically the last week or so has been onerous task day. I still have to do a second round, printing it out with track changes hidden, and just make one last check for clumsiness - something much easier to do in printed form.
Before I get to the second round (which I have till 7th to complete) I think I will reward myself by writing a post on Grist about the original "Miracle on 34th Street" and efficient market theory. Then I totally will be able to say I did something geeky recently.
erikaj - Dec 01, 2011 6:02:49 am PST #4977 of 6690
Always Anti-fascist!
Good for you...hope the book does great.
Typo Boy - Dec 01, 2011 7:34:44 am PST #4978 of 6690
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Thanks. Jan 7 I enter the exciting world of indexing when I get the gallys.
hippocampus - Dec 04, 2011 2:01:50 pm PST #4979 of 6690
not your mom's socks.
hee, Jilli, smallish world - the person I linked you to on twitter is a writing group friend from Viable Paradise.
Atropa - Dec 04, 2011 4:31:06 pm PST #4980 of 6690
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Ha! Very cool, Sox.
I just finished watching the intro to Scrivner video, and yeah, I think that's EXACTLY the sort of tool I need right now.
Amy - Dec 05, 2011 6:47:10 am PST #4981 of 6690
Because books.
One of the headlines from today's Publishers Lunch newsletter:
Publishers Have Success Selling Print Books That Look More Like Beautiful Objects; Also, the Sky Is Blue
Heh. Get your snark on, PubLunch!
Consuela - Dec 06, 2011 9:11:23 am PST #4982 of 6690
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just finished watching the intro to Scrivner video, and yeah, I think that's EXACTLY the sort of tool I need right now.
OMG Jilli Scrivener is DA BOMB. I'll never take on another big writing project without it, and I've only scratched the surface of what it can do. But just being able to have multiple screens open on the desktop has been a lifesaver.