Comments | tnh: Predictable outcome

tnh

Predictable outcome

Apr 19, 2006 21:18

Did I mention that I made my first pro magazine sale a while back? It's nonfiction, of course -- an essay on cliches in book-length works, for the cliche-themed issue John Scalzi is editing for Subterranean.Today I proofread my galleys. (They may be .pdf files, but they're still galleys.) There are twenty-eight separate items in the corrections I ( Read more... )

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sdn April 20 2006, 02:16:25 UTC

ha! also: http://www.creebs.com/

tnh April 20 2006, 02:22:52 UTC

Weird. "Creeb" is an old piece of fanspeak.

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athenais April 20 2006, 02:17:17 UTC

Congratulations. But I don't know that I buy that "nonfiction, of course." You can write fiction.

tnh April 20 2006, 02:23:23 UTC

Urf.

gtrout April 20 2006, 03:44:05 UTC

Shhh! That's supposed to be a secret!

ckd April 20 2006, 02:28:59 UTC

I find myself unsurprised, yet still quite amused.

norilana April 20 2006, 02:37:42 UTC

Hee hee!

And congrats! :-)

cicadabug April 20 2006, 03:30:51 UTC

Congratulations on the sale, and I look forward to reading the essay. I don't suppose this means we might have a _Making Book_ II in the future?

I've got the compulsive rewriter thing too. Heck, I've still got white knuckles from where I had to pry the last MS out of my own hands to put it into the mail... I am somewhat convinced that there are typos that are entirely invisible until you've sealed the envelope, then run rampant through your obsessed-over prose, kicking over punctuation, vomiting up extra spaces and line breaks, and generally pissing all over your spelling and grammar. All those SF novels with alien names filled with apostrophes? K'tik'tak't'ough? Not the author. Hostile, sentient typos. Really.