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lots and lots of edits
Mar. 19th, 2015 11:01 pmAnd apparently I need to read the freaking chicago manual of style snce I'm old and all my grammar doesn't work any more. Since when don't you preceed 'too' with a comma? Almost every comma I have in (or my betas told me to put in) are being removed. Ugh. I really don't want to read that thing. it's boring.
That said, my global notes were amazingly supportive. She got most everything I was trying to do. I'll save the negative for a writerly ways. The other negative was how I handled PTSD in Temple but the research I'm doing tonight does suggest talking therapies were used then. I'll see what I can do about that. In the big SIX days they gave me to edit an entire novel. Still it's a good feeling to have an editor think so highly of my story.
AND I'll be getting the edits for my short story now too from the other publisher. How fun. Shoot me. Hold me. Something.
We went out to a new (to me) restaurant, Breezy Heights restaurant in Avella. It's been there since 1927 and it's very strange. The whole back wall is every dead animal you would kill on a Safari (and they were in the 1930s by the first owner). the entire upper part of the walls is a mural painted in 1936-37, very Americana and the manager who tottered out to see how my meal was has worked there 61 years. Ignoring the back wall and concentrating on the mural is a good thing. They've been winning awards for their broasted chicken for 50 years (so why did it take my parents until last year to learn about? who knows) It was delicious chicken.
On the way back we stopped to see my cousins (Dad's first cousins).I really like her. We have so much in common. For decades they said she should have been my mom. I feel bad. Her husband is older (80) and so frail, we expected him to die 2 years ago. It's the reason we stopped really. We know there's not much time left with him.
I'm learning anthological series aren't for me. You miss one episode and you're lost as hell. I've tried them time and again with mysteries and just couldn't get into any of them. I'm struggling with Dig right now and while I did make it through Broadchurch last year I'm giving up this year but not so much because of the episodic nature. Partially because it's BORING and partially because it's SUCH a soap opera. It's 98% soap and 2% mystery any more. ( Spoilers for this week )
That said, my global notes were amazingly supportive. She got most everything I was trying to do. I'll save the negative for a writerly ways. The other negative was how I handled PTSD in Temple but the research I'm doing tonight does suggest talking therapies were used then. I'll see what I can do about that. In the big SIX days they gave me to edit an entire novel. Still it's a good feeling to have an editor think so highly of my story.
AND I'll be getting the edits for my short story now too from the other publisher. How fun. Shoot me. Hold me. Something.
We went out to a new (to me) restaurant, Breezy Heights restaurant in Avella. It's been there since 1927 and it's very strange. The whole back wall is every dead animal you would kill on a Safari (and they were in the 1930s by the first owner). the entire upper part of the walls is a mural painted in 1936-37, very Americana and the manager who tottered out to see how my meal was has worked there 61 years. Ignoring the back wall and concentrating on the mural is a good thing. They've been winning awards for their broasted chicken for 50 years (so why did it take my parents until last year to learn about? who knows) It was delicious chicken.
On the way back we stopped to see my cousins (Dad's first cousins).I really like her. We have so much in common. For decades they said she should have been my mom. I feel bad. Her husband is older (80) and so frail, we expected him to die 2 years ago. It's the reason we stopped really. We know there's not much time left with him.
I'm learning anthological series aren't for me. You miss one episode and you're lost as hell. I've tried them time and again with mysteries and just couldn't get into any of them. I'm struggling with Dig right now and while I did make it through Broadchurch last year I'm giving up this year but not so much because of the episodic nature. Partially because it's BORING and partially because it's SUCH a soap opera. It's 98% soap and 2% mystery any more. ( Spoilers for this week )
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