Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Life and the working author.

1) Return home from work. Update local backups of various files to reflect edits processed during lunch break, since failure to do this leads to madness and tears. Process slightly complicated by the sudden presence of an attention-starved Siamese cat who insists on licking every inch of my hands. Resistance is futile. You will be exfoliated.

2) Begin downloading edits received during commute. Be both daunted and elated by the sheer scope of said edits. Remember that maybe if I'd stop writing three or more books at a time, I wouldn't wind up opening my inbox to discover fifteen people commenting on my abuse of the common comma. Then again, what would be the fun in that?

3) Get accused of sadism by a proofreader. Cackle maniacally.

4) Compulsively answer all pending LJ comments on this blog, while the little voice in the back of my head scolds me for wasting time that could be spent processing all those edits from step two. Remind the little voice that if I do this every day, it takes fifteen minutes, rather than an entire Sunday. Little voice quiets, grumbling.

5) Process edits. The English language: I am once again doin' it wrong. Also continuity, punctuation, and making sense. Mysteriously, the books in question remain pretty good. I become increasingly more and more convinced that I have sold my soul at the crossroads. I also find it increasingly more difficult to be bothered by this notion.

6) Ask the cat what I should work on. The cat says I should work on feeding the cat.

7) Feed the cat.
Tags: editing, lilly, proofreading, writing
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