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 ( Read more... )

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For those of you who aren't following me on Facebook, I noticed a sore on Eli's paw a week ago. Not right on his paw, but a little above, not on an area that he steps on. Nobody is sure if he caught it on something, if it's an insect bite, or what. We took him to the vet on Saturday, he was put on antibiotics, the wound was cleaned any dressed...

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I spent 3 hrs at a seedy little downtown McDonalds's waiting for Beth to get through her doggie CPR class, and managed to line edit about 40 pages,

Aside from the shabby old dude who bombarded me with about 17 Jehovah Witness tracts, it was a pretty good day.

(Melodye, I thought of you)

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention: onegrapeshy will also be doing Grapemo this year ( Read more... )

80 pages left to line edit and then back to the computer. I can't wait to see how many words I chopped out.

8,000 would be nice, rounding this monster down to an even 100k.

Somehow I doubt it.

108,000 words. That's one hundred and eight thousand words.

Did you guess that I finished the first round of revisions today? Tomorrow I'll print it out, proof-read (haha) and edit by hand, then make the changes and send it off to my betas.

Who will die when they see it. Seriously: one hundred and eight thousand words?????OK, on the plus side: ( Read more... )

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Currently I'm in a love-love relationship with my ghost story. Revisions are going well. I'm wrapping things up ( Read more... )

1. I've been having a TERRIBLE time with this ghost story revision. Somethng wasn't jelling, it drove me nuts, and I honestly didn't know how to fix it.Then, in a 7-hour writing marathon yesterday (after meeting 
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