Tag Archives: editing
Life: Editing, Cats, Art, and More Cats — the Usual.
Ever notice how any word, if you look at it enough, starts to look like nonsense? Well, after looking at the word house a few hundred times (and having to determine each time if it’s supposed to be capitalized in … Continue reading
How the Writing Is Going: January 13, 2023
But first, kitten pictures! That’s Soot Sprite (Sprite, for short), the new kitten. She’s older than she looks; she’s just tiny. It doesn’t show well in this photo due to the lighting, but she’s a black tabby with white/pale grey … Continue reading
More About How the Writing Is Going: January 2, 2023
At nine PM today, I finished copyediting Instruments of Faith, the sequel to I Won’t Cry for Yesterday. Also, Paul tells me that there are no more backstory adjustments necessary to make The Dark Plaza work with the prequel series, … Continue reading
Take Someone Else’s Word for It
Since I’m still not up to writing more “Writing Glitch” posts (when last we saw my mind, it was eating tacos/enchiladas in Albuquerque), here’s a link to someone else’s advice on the topic of comma usage: To Comma, or Not … Continue reading
Writing/Editing Advice for the Day
Don’t consult an editor who uses the word literally to mean not literally. I just read a blog post in which the blogger, someone who feels he has ‘found his niche’ as a giver of ‘expert’ advice on writing/publishing, tells … Continue reading
Editing status: boss fight
I’m about two-thirds of the way through the manuscript, at least. I would have had this one done months ago, but various real-life circumstances (mostly health problems) got in the way of me even working on it. (You know me: … Continue reading
Updates: end of May
Question: What is both cute and scary? Answer: Eleven kittens. Smudge’s three half-sisters had their kittens in the same week, and there are now eleven small kittens — plus their moms — living in our back yard: three “tuxedo” kittens, … Continue reading
Cats, editing, and my clone-sibling’s new armor
So there I was this morning, making coffee in the kitchen, when the kitten came running into the room, dragging a full-size bath towel… “Logan, what are you doing?” “Boo-boo!” he meowed. Flop. Flip. Purrrrr…. Cats are so weird. Isn’t … Continue reading