A Note About Copyedits
So I am on the last leg of my last copy edits and plan to finish up today.
It's amazing the mistakes you find. Not only the mistakes the copy editor finds (for instance, Rinn stops her bipolar medication--and then out of the blue, in the midst of her so-called experiment, she pops a pill--which pretty much kills what I was going for) but the mistakes you made.
Me: Rinn, after the power fails during her Christmas concert and she finds herself inexplicably alone in the school auditorium, she realizes the door to the pool room (Annaliese's hangout) is open.
A minute later, it's closed. Then it opens again.
Say what?
I've read this ms a thousand times and never noticed it. Even Awesome Copy Editor didn't pick up on it. But it hit me like a slap in the face when I read that part for the one-thousandth-and-ONE time.
Which kind of scares me.
What else did I miss???
Thank you, Stewie. I know.
It's amazing the mistakes you find. Not only the mistakes the copy editor finds (for instance, Rinn stops her bipolar medication--and then out of the blue, in the midst of her so-called experiment, she pops a pill--which pretty much kills what I was going for) but the mistakes you made.
Me: Rinn, after the power fails during her Christmas concert and she finds herself inexplicably alone in the school auditorium, she realizes the door to the pool room (Annaliese's hangout) is open.
A minute later, it's closed. Then it opens again.
Say what?
I've read this ms a thousand times and never noticed it. Even Awesome Copy Editor didn't pick up on it. But it hit me like a slap in the face when I read that part for the one-thousandth-and-ONE time.
Which kind of scares me.
What else did I miss???
Thank you, Stewie. I know.