Harder than it looks.
A lot.
Painful, too.
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Heh. You have my sincere sympathy! Just ask any Clerk Typist and you’ll find a shoulder to cry on. Best wishes…
Do you mean editing headers to hang two “ornaments” on the F/A-18….
Of editing text…:)
i think it was yossarian who, while in the hospital, was given enlisted men’s mail to censor. one day he declared “death to all modifiers,” and got busy with his razorblade. just a thought…
Steady as she goes, Capt…
Cooking is more fun than doing the dishes…
Steady @ 3: And then I think he moved on to nouns…
I read somewhere once, that giving birth to a book is almost as painful as a baby.
Hang tough, Lex.
No, Byron, babies are way worse. Done both, I’ll write another book–baby, no.
Have a Guinness. For strength.
heh – wait ’til peer review…
- SJS
Editing is a right royal pain. Especially with fiction, where you already know how it ends
If you ever want to send a mild-mannered writer into a frothing rage, just say “I have this great idea for a book. You write it and we’ll split the profits 50-50.” Like the *idea* is the hard part …
Help might be coming regarding the editing and potential publishers. I called in a chit with a buddy of mine. He doesn’t write the same genre, his contacts won’t be all that useful to you, but if his people know other people maybe it’ll work out.
Sorry I couldn’t do better, I’m giving what I have.
– Max
Having been a mad-technical-writer-of-fortune for the past 30 years, I figure that editors don’t get paid enough. Period.
About halfway through a project, I couldn’t tell if my own name had been misspelled, if it happened to appear in the text.
Eventually, you start to see what you know should be there; extra sets of eyes have saved us from spectacular, if sometimes entertaining to readers, errors more than once.
Condolences, etc.
Ya see what Laurie says, boss? You could have it worse…you could be having a baby instead of a book!
Hang in there Lex. You already know the story – it’s yours.
you could always take comfort from Thomas Mann who said “A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
good luck!
(and thanks in advance)
The golden rule of editing, (words, film, tape, whatever), “When in doubt, throw it out” .
Lex,
It’s all in the proof readingg ain’t it? As a senior watch officer averaging 3 hours sleep/night I used to rewrite all the watch quarter station bills every month as 25% of the crew changed out in a combat zone and it killed me that the ship’s office would have their head clerk sit down at his Xerox 860 word processor and bring up the previous WQS bill and try to “modify” it with the changes I wrote. I found myself spending 8 times as much time “proofing” the finished product as it took to “write” it since I had to do it 4 or 5 times after catching obvious failures to transcribe what I wrote. I promised death and destruction if they did not start each month with a clean slate. I have to admit, the PN1 laughed at this until I pointed out my alternative WQS bill that had him port and starboard as mine watch if he darkened my door one more time with a WQS bill that contained so much as a typo and told him that nothing in navy regs said the damned thing had to be typed to be valid.
That said, I can offer you the services of one of my company’s document specialists who could turn your life into a living hell by insisting that she maintains document control and therefore you are responsible for proofing all work submitted to her for revision because she won’t use your edited copy as the new baseline but insists on updating the original document as the baseline. I won’t be working with her on any more AoA.