Comments on: “You smell like Chewbacca” http://deannahoak.com/2009/12/05/you-smell-like-chewbacca/ SF/F Copyeditor Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Deanna Hoak http://deannahoak.com/2009/12/05/you-smell-like-chewbacca/comment-page-1/#comment-200573 Deanna Hoak Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:47:19 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=850#comment-200573 Yeah, it's always nice to do that first job. :) The experience can be completely different when you're working on a book by someone you don't know at all, and I think a lot of becoming a good copyeditor is learning how to work within the styles of a variety of authors. Yeah, it’s always nice to do that first job. :) The experience can be completely different when you’re working on a book by someone you don’t know at all, and I think a lot of becoming a good copyeditor is learning how to work within the styles of a variety of authors.

]]> By: Steve Hall http://deannahoak.com/2009/12/05/you-smell-like-chewbacca/comment-page-1/#comment-200558 Steve Hall Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:33:03 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=850#comment-200558 That's a wonderful quote, and I think it really does capture the essence of what I perceive copyediting to be. I just completed my first <i>pro bono</i> copyediting assignment--the first chapter of a novella-in-writing of a friend who is not a native English-speaker. Surprisingly, the copy was in very good shape, but her gratitude (after overcoming what she called "jitters" before looking at my edits) to me for pointing out things she thought were perfectly okay was genuine, and definitely rewarding to me. And the way we worked out a rather confusing description did a lot for both of us, I think, as far as establishing that we could (and will) work together effectively. That’s a wonderful quote, and I think it really does capture the essence of what I perceive copyediting to be.

I just completed my first pro bono copyediting assignment–the first chapter of a novella-in-writing of a friend who is not a native English-speaker. Surprisingly, the copy was in very good shape, but her gratitude (after overcoming what she called “jitters” before looking at my edits) to me for pointing out things she thought were perfectly okay was genuine, and definitely rewarding to me.

And the way we worked out a rather confusing description did a lot for both of us, I think, as far as establishing that we could (and will) work together effectively.

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