Judging by the 1,800 pages of author- and editor-requested copyedits I have sitting on my desk, I really suck at this whole notion of “hiatus.”
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Congrats on all the work – more work=more money, woot!
Deanna, can you throw some tips my way? I am trying to edit my manuscript and I am reading right over the errors. Especially with the missing words – my brain just fills in the blank and I don’t see it. Like this “She glared at me with a kind stubborn defiance.” Is there any kind of trick I can do to find this stuff, or am I doomed to failure?
Everyone’s eyes do that trick–and it’s worse when it’s your own writing, because your brain knows exactly what you intended to be there. :-)
When I edit, I actually put my pencil on every single word. You can’t move the pencil along in a line and expect it to work; you actually have to “dot” each word as you go.
Congrats on all the work – more work=more money, woot!
Deanna, can you throw some tips my way? I am trying to edit my manuscript and I am reading right over the errors. Especially with the missing words – my brain just fills in the blank and I don’t see it. Like this “She glared at me with a kind stubborn defiance.” Is there any kind of trick I can do to find this stuff, or am I doomed to failure?
Everyone’s eyes do that trick–and it’s worse when it’s your own writing, because your brain knows exactly what you intended to be there. :-)
When I edit, I actually put my pencil on every single word. You can’t move the pencil along in a line and expect it to work; you actually have to “dot” each word as you go.