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Mer versus the Copy Edit
(Blue*) blood on the first page: remark one is a stet. But my editor wrote a note saying she supported a stet if I felt it stettable. That was like "permission granted!" in my world ( Read more... ) -
The reality of a CEM
Copy-edited manuscript. Waiting in my door. Kinda stuck in there, clinging halfway up. Like Spider-Man.
It's so... real.
Awesomely, though? dancingwriter was my freelance proofer on this. Which I figured out sometime in the last ten minutes. I KNOW dancingwriter. Many of you know her. I AM MUCH LESS SCARED NOW. Not because I think she's gone easy on me or ( Read more... ) -
World Fantasy "Report"
So, before I went to World Fantasy Con, I was like this:
OMG, WFC!
And after World Fantasy Con, I'm pretty much like this:
OMG, WFC! (and I'm tired)
I would tell you about all the huge-lots of people I saw, but you would probably be very bored by this unless you were one of them (or if you are secretcrush (ETA: Or secritcrush, even), I bet even then) and I would ( Read more... ) -
Why ams awake?
I don't do insomnia, but about every three years or so, my body forgets this.
I wonder if this has to do with the lowest barometric pressure in recorded history or whatever hyperbole they were using earlier today ("Earlier, the agency said the storm's pressure was worse than that produced the Blizzard of 1978, the March 1993 "Storm of the Century ( Read more... ) -
Travelogue, 1997
I was poking around my website today to get it updated--I had, she admits shamefacedly, not even put up a link to "Five Rules for Commuting to the Underworld," and have become just like every writer I thought I despised for being unappreciative of their own success back when I was zealously link-checking my three publications over and over.... Now ( Read more... ) -
a book suggestion request
Tell me, o friendslist, wherein all knowledge is contained ( Read more... ) -
Obligatory World Fantasy Post!
Obligatory, but don't think I'm not excited about WFC ( Read more... ) -
Cat Drama!
Merlin, my writing cat, invented the art of sleeping under my halogen desk lamp. No, really, he'll tell you.
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(Untitled)
Did you know if you hit escape enough times, it will delete the whole livejournal entry you just wrote ( Read more... ) -
Stuntwriting and Stuntwriting
I'm going to attempt to write the better part of a chapter book that has been lurking in my brain for several years... THIS WEEKEND. I suspect 30,000 words is too much, but I wonder if I could get down 15k, ie, half the project ( Read more... )