Reduced Editorial Staffing
So, this week, Madam finished chapter 3 and the epilogue for S&S pretty early, so i had my draft to edit Monday evening. I sorta figured hey, i've got plenty of time to edit. This can wait till Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon. So i kinda procrastinate until then. That, and it was very tempting to just read! After all, it's best to read over the material a couple times so you can better look at the structure rather than just the content.
Lo and behold, Wednesday evening rolls around and i have a 101.5 degree fever. By Thursday afternoon, it's not down very far. Given the circumstances, Madam recused me from this week's duties. x.x
Soooo, the gist of this is, if you've read the ending to S&S, it lacks my usual touch to it. Which very probably doesn't hurt the final result. Given that Madam is now doing her own proofreading pass before Val sees the story, most of the easy to find technical errors that i love so much are already fixed. *pout*
Sooo, if Madam's prose is particularly beautiful this week, that's because i didn't get my opportunity to screw it up. If you haven't read it, by the way, read it now, especially any Q.S. fans out there.
~eri
Lo and behold, Wednesday evening rolls around and i have a 101.5 degree fever. By Thursday afternoon, it's not down very far. Given the circumstances, Madam recused me from this week's duties. x.x
Soooo, the gist of this is, if you've read the ending to S&S, it lacks my usual touch to it. Which very probably doesn't hurt the final result. Given that Madam is now doing her own proofreading pass before Val sees the story, most of the easy to find technical errors that i love so much are already fixed. *pout*
Sooo, if Madam's prose is particularly beautiful this week, that's because i didn't get my opportunity to screw it up. If you haven't read it, by the way, read it now, especially any Q.S. fans out there.
~eri
posted by erislave at
10:33 AM
3 Comments:
You don't screw up Madam's prose. Her new proofreading habit has made my job easier, too!
This week's installment was surprisingly clean; most of my edits were stylistic, or weird technical things probably caused by her revising sentences mid-thought.
Yay for eri-posting! Aren't you glad Q.S. didn't get a chance to use you as her vessel for this one? ^.~ I'm going to have to find an excuse to let that happen, eventually . . .
Yessssss. That's the word! Veeery glad.
Awww! I quite missed having your editing pass, but I think it turned out well despite such setbacks. After all, I am the Madam Kistulot and such! -hugs lots- Staff not reduced, you just had some sick time :)
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