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Aug. 22nd, 2008 06:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsDo all the professional writers on my flist have ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mistful on their flist? Because y'all really ought to. She's struggling with copyedits today.
Sometimes copyedits are a simple matter of your copyeditor switching ‘Nick said’ to ‘said Nick.’ Then all you do is stare at that, wonder why she changed it and if it matters and which way looks best, and then you tear out all your hair and use the torn-out hair as a hanky to wipe your fevered brow. Simple!
Click the link for the fun of an American copyeditor dealing with Irish phrasing.
mistful on their flist? Because y'all really ought to. She's struggling with copyedits today.Sometimes copyedits are a simple matter of your copyeditor switching ‘Nick said’ to ‘said Nick.’ Then all you do is stare at that, wonder why she changed it and if it matters and which way looks best, and then you tear out all your hair and use the torn-out hair as a hanky to wipe your fevered brow. Simple!
Click the link for the fun of an American copyeditor dealing with Irish phrasing.
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Date: 2008-08-22 11:57 am (UTC)