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Jul. 24th, 2015 10:40 pm1. Attempting to explain the appeal of m/m to my 73 year old mother over the phone. We're discussing the daytime soap opera that we've watched for the last 20 years.
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2. Dragon Riders of Pern...is a heck of a lot more sexist than I remember. Also, I used to love the character of F'lar, now I want to throttle him. There's a passage in the book that blew me away and I did not remember being there.
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3. People whine a lot on Good Reads and Amazon about copy-edit errors.(Not my book, other books, every book.) Okay folks? Do you have any idea how much money it costs to pay for a line edit? $1765 for 97,000 words. At approximately five cents a word. As a co-worker pointed out, maybe I should copy-edit instead of write -- far more lucrative. It's not like I'm not already doing it at work - but far harder, I'm copy-editing contractual documents and technical statements of work, as part of my jack-of-all-trades profession. I also do insurance analysis, financial analysis, negotiation,
legal analysis, coordinating site tours, chairing evaluation meetings, obtaining information, etc.
Trust me, when you copy-edit in the 21st Century - you are fighting stupid Microsoft which doesn't save your changes half the time, even though you clicked and saved it twice, and the computer likes to argue with you about what is good grammar or the actual spelling. (Yes, the dumb software developers and programmers are responsible for 98% of the copyedit errors in books. Blame IT. Not the writers or copyeditors. It's the computer geeks fault! I'm sort of joking. There were copy-edit errors prior to computers.)
I think people should be aware of this. Once I figured it out -- I stopped getting pissy over copy-edit errors in books.
4. Television is boring me this summer. I think I may plug in the Amazon Fire Stick this weekend and try either Amazon streaming or Netflix streaming.
Lots of reviews on lj. How's the summer treating you? I've been doing a lot of writing. I write and edit at work, then come home and like a crazy person write five to six pages between 9-10:30pm at night. I have written 65 pages, single spaced so far on my new sci-fi noir mystery novel about a genetically altered human/alien hybrid who hates space travel. [This weird drive to write should come as no surprise to anyone who has been reading this livejournal. After all - this is basically a frustrated writers club.]
Co-worker asked me if I liked Science Fiction?
Yes, (actually favorite genre to be honest).
Did you see Sharknado 3 (or is it 4, I lost track) last night on Syfy?
Sigh.
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2. Dragon Riders of Pern...is a heck of a lot more sexist than I remember. Also, I used to love the character of F'lar, now I want to throttle him. There's a passage in the book that blew me away and I did not remember being there.
( Read more... )
3. People whine a lot on Good Reads and Amazon about copy-edit errors.(Not my book, other books, every book.) Okay folks? Do you have any idea how much money it costs to pay for a line edit? $1765 for 97,000 words. At approximately five cents a word. As a co-worker pointed out, maybe I should copy-edit instead of write -- far more lucrative. It's not like I'm not already doing it at work - but far harder, I'm copy-editing contractual documents and technical statements of work, as part of my jack-of-all-trades profession. I also do insurance analysis, financial analysis, negotiation,
legal analysis, coordinating site tours, chairing evaluation meetings, obtaining information, etc.
Trust me, when you copy-edit in the 21st Century - you are fighting stupid Microsoft which doesn't save your changes half the time, even though you clicked and saved it twice, and the computer likes to argue with you about what is good grammar or the actual spelling. (Yes, the dumb software developers and programmers are responsible for 98% of the copyedit errors in books. Blame IT. Not the writers or copyeditors. It's the computer geeks fault! I'm sort of joking. There were copy-edit errors prior to computers.)
I think people should be aware of this. Once I figured it out -- I stopped getting pissy over copy-edit errors in books.
4. Television is boring me this summer. I think I may plug in the Amazon Fire Stick this weekend and try either Amazon streaming or Netflix streaming.
Lots of reviews on lj. How's the summer treating you? I've been doing a lot of writing. I write and edit at work, then come home and like a crazy person write five to six pages between 9-10:30pm at night. I have written 65 pages, single spaced so far on my new sci-fi noir mystery novel about a genetically altered human/alien hybrid who hates space travel. [This weird drive to write should come as no surprise to anyone who has been reading this livejournal. After all - this is basically a frustrated writers club.]
Co-worker asked me if I liked Science Fiction?
Yes, (actually favorite genre to be honest).
Did you see Sharknado 3 (or is it 4, I lost track) last night on Syfy?
Sigh.