Comments | mizkit: punishment for enjoying myself :)

mizkit

punishment for enjoying myself :)

Oct 15, 2007 11:42

I'm pretty sure the punishment for saying I was having fun writing is getting two sets of copy edits to do in two weeks. I knew about the TQB ones; I had three weeks' warning that they'd be coming in. I did not know about the HOUSE OF CARDS ones; I got email late Thursday night saying "We're sending you copy edits and can we have them back ( Read more... )

writing, copy edits, editing, paniiiiiiiic!

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irishkate October 15 2007, 10:56:43 UTC

Hugs

xnamkrad October 15 2007, 11:25:22 UTC

Ahh - it great to see you again, sorry about the cold, I wonder who gave that to you?

irishkate October 15 2007, 11:28:58 UTC

It wasn't me I swear - where would you GET such an idea?

honestly...

mizkit October 15 2007, 11:34:01 UTC

Actually, it was almost certainly my nephews, who are, as Ted calls them, little plague monkeys. :) I've been on and off with a cold the last few weeks, but this morning it was distinctly more unpleasant. :)

dqg_neal October 15 2007, 12:32:58 UTC

plague monkeys, eh?
After I read the latest blog entry of one of my friends who works in a school detailing the latest of her random sickness of the week... I wonder why we spend all this money for CDC and other organizations to have research labs.. I mean the largest variety of infectious diseases and their carriers are in any school you go to.

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dqg_neal October 15 2007, 17:29:38 UTC

Whats the deal with requiring copy edits back in less than a week? Who messed up on their end of things in scheduling. That is plain insane!!!

sixteenbynine October 15 2007, 19:38:22 UTC

I managed to cram copy edits for my last novel into about a week's time, but it was a rush job and I knew it. It took three other readers to scrub the text for everything I'd missed.

Thank goodness for print-on-demand.