State of the Author Dealing with Copyedit, in gifs

[lagilman]

aand then, when it all seems lost... you just give up, give in, and start STETing the fuck out of everything.

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[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly.

[claireeddy.livejournal.com]

Did we get "that copy edit"? If so, mucho sorries 😠

[lagilman]

It had its moments, but certainly not in the Top Three of OMFGWTFBBQ,

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

:-)

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

As we're getting older and our vision is getting worse, something Satyr & I have discovered is that copy edits go MUCH MUCH faster when you can actually read things.

So, I got him one of those magnifying sheets of plastic, and a nifty headset with magnifying goggles and an LED light (he swaps back and forth between them) which made reading through 694 pages of 9 point font (printed "fast draft" so as to not use more than one entire ink cartridge) SO much easier.

And I let him use my computer for entering the edits. I recently got myself a present for photo processing--a 39" 4k TV that I use as a monitor. It's fantastic for close-up detail work... or for increasing your viewing size while still being able to see the entire page.

Now I have a MUCH happier writer/editor to come home to at night! (Although he does still swear about finding necessary edits.)

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I miss the satisfying SMOCK of the red STET stamp. Online editing has its compensations, but I miss the stamp.