Behold! For now I wear the human pants! I have finished processing the editorial notes on Late Eclipses, gone through the book end-to-end to make sure everything still makes sense, and finished processing the corrections in Vixy's gloriously detailed machete file. Then I packed it a lunch and sent it off to play with the Machete Squad, who will doubtless hack it to hell before it gets to go back to The Editor for the final time.
The current book stats:
Pages, 369. Words, 107,372. Chapters, thirty-seven. Cans of DDP, oh, wow, I cannot tell you.
I'm finally happy with this book. It's in a very awkward position, because book four is sort of where you get to say "here's when shit gets real," and make people stop treating you like you're writing a trilogy (which I never was). It's a transition book, and it follows An Artificial Night, which is still my favorite in the series. But it's also better than I ever dreamt it would be, and I'm so thrilled to have watched it grow into something wonderful.
Given how much Seanan likes DDR (Dance Dance Revolution (health permitting)) I've been wondering for years what DDQ might be, since it's right there in the middle.
"Now, now, dear. I'm only sending you to get battered by reviewers with red pens because I *love* you."
I was a TA in a history class that rather than a single long paper had a short paper due every week, and where the prof made us be crazy hard on grammar, and one girl made an appointment with me and cried when she asked me if I could please do her corrections in some color other than red, because she was starting to develop a Pavlovian reaction to the color. (I corrected the rest of her essays in sparkly purple.)
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Coincidence? Or conspiracy? [cue ominous music]
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I was a TA in a history class that rather than a single long paper had a short paper due every week, and where the prof made us be crazy hard on grammar, and one girl made an appointment with me and cried when she asked me if I could please do her corrections in some color other than red, because she was starting to develop a Pavlovian reaction to the color. (I corrected the rest of her essays in sparkly purple.)
Way to go finishing your edits!
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July 27 2010, 01:41:06 UTC 7 years ago
Someone ask for a dino dance party?
August 4 2010, 15:22:27 UTC 6 years ago
O.K.
July 27 2010, 02:20:09 UTC 7 years ago
Dmp, Dmp, Domp-Dmp
Dmp, Dmp, Domp-Dmp
Every-Raptor Dance Now
Re: O.K.
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Plurals of 'eclipse'
July 27 2010, 13:17:01 UTC 7 years ago
(Looking at the number of speleing erors I just had to correct in the above sentence I suspect that I do need chocolate. Or sleep. Or both...)
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Dino Dance Party
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