Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: giggly
  • Music: Science Groove, 'Oxidative Phosphorylation.'

Proofreader spotlight: Sunil.

Quietly he lurks, sharpening his knives, sharpening his wits, and booby trapping his escape routes, lest one of his cuttingly funny, cuttingly accurate comments causes me to bay for his blood. He is...SUNIL, SECRET NINJA PROOFREADER.

And he has just made me laugh so hard that peas came out of my nose. Actual peas, out of my actual nose.

This hurt.

Sadly, it's difficult to quote Sunil's edits directly, despite the fact that they are some of the funniest shit I've encountered in days, because, well, they're very dependent on the text around them. But he's hysterical. You gotta take me word on this one. I meant to just check to make sure he'd used one of my standard editing formats, and wound up processing eight chapters of commentary, because it was too damn funny to stop going through.

One of the best things about becoming a better writer has been the change in the kind of edits that I tend to get. Because, you see, when I no longer need regular lectures on pacing and character development, it becomes possible for my editors to focus on more important things, like causing me to breathe vegetation.

Best end to a Monday night ever. All hail Sunil!
Tags: editing, i love my editors, proofreading
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...go 17 levels up... Expand

seanan_mcguire

September 15 2008, 05:02:35 UTC 8 years ago

I sadly do very, very well with huge groups that have very fixed opinions on how I'm going to behave. It's amorphous social settings that cause the curl up-and-die response.

talithakalago

September 19 2008, 00:23:37 UTC 8 years ago

Really? I think I'm the opposite. If people know nothing about me and don't know me from a bar of soap I can work a room like I own it.

Meeting people who know of me just makes me fall into very polite robot mode. Classroom/lecture settings are the same. The wall and I become one.