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Dec. 1st, 2008 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanA quick run through the f-list indicates that many of us are doing some sort of maintenance or another today. Moi aussi. I now have a new ergonomic office chair. And new storage shelves. And I'm figuring out where to put the new desktop tower and the soon-to-be-secondary tower. And how the cats will fit into this new configuration.
And the freezer is filled with meat, and the pantry is stocked with soup and cat food (the essentials of life-in-winter). And there is beef stew, simmering in the dutch oven. Mmmm. (because Someone decided to be cute -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_oven. Okay? You people are all eleven.)
I suppose I should do some more revisions on HARD MAGIC this afternoon....
Revisions for me are a mult-stage process. First, I skim the editorial letter, taking in the good and glancing on the bad. Then I go away for a while and console myself that "well, they don't think it's totally unfixable. And they liked some bits." Then I come back, armed with a red pen, a blue pen, and a yellow and a green highlighter. The blue pen crosses out the good comments (done). The highlighters pick out the stuff I need to dig into/think about. The red pen is for making useful and/or snide comments as I read through/highlight things. Once that is done, I take the annotated letter, and apply it to the manuscript itself.
I'm at Stage Three right now, and have figured out how to fix two editorial concerns with one relatively minor change. Yay for economy of auctorial motion!
And the freezer is filled with meat, and the pantry is stocked with soup and cat food (the essentials of life-in-winter). And there is beef stew, simmering in the dutch oven. Mmmm. (because Someone decided to be cute -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_oven. Okay? You people are all eleven.)
I suppose I should do some more revisions on HARD MAGIC this afternoon....
Revisions for me are a mult-stage process. First, I skim the editorial letter, taking in the good and glancing on the bad. Then I go away for a while and console myself that "well, they don't think it's totally unfixable. And they liked some bits." Then I come back, armed with a red pen, a blue pen, and a yellow and a green highlighter. The blue pen crosses out the good comments (done). The highlighters pick out the stuff I need to dig into/think about. The red pen is for making useful and/or snide comments as I read through/highlight things. Once that is done, I take the annotated letter, and apply it to the manuscript itself.
I'm at Stage Three right now, and have figured out how to fix two editorial concerns with one relatively minor change. Yay for economy of auctorial motion!
