Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: busy
  • Music: Melissa Etheridge, 'Talking to My Angel.'

Life and the working author.

1) Return home from work basically a walking swamp, due to the summer deciding to have one last party here in California. Collapse into desk chair and download heaping piles of edits rather than doing anything that actually requires coherent thought.

2) Add some pages to the new Toby Wiki, as this requires little more than cutting and pasting, at least for now. Later, this thing is going to require heaping piles of effort and thought, but right now? I cut, I paste, I format, I get bored, I wander away to do something else.

3) Perform major surgery on Late Eclipses of the Sun, slicing the events of chapter three into four equal chunks and stapling them together in a new order before covering the scars with sticky tape and glue. Discover that the chapter is way, way better this way. Grumble.

4) Try to explain the continuity changes to the cat. The cat fails to care.

5) Send the new version of Late Eclipses to my proofing list. Get antsy. Start transitioning Discount Armageddon from third person to first person. Again, discover that the text is way, way better this way. Orders of magnitude better. 'There is no possible way you were wrong about the POV change' better. Grumble more.

6) Process some minor edits to Late Eclipses, including one that points out the fact that there is no such date as April 31st.

7) Decide to go watch Eureka with the cat.
Tags: discount armageddon, editing, incryptid, late eclipses, lilly, proofreading, writing
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miladyinsanity

August 27 2008, 12:38:40 UTC 8 years ago

Hi Seanan, I'm trying to set up my own continuity etc guide in a wiki, and I was wondering, which software are you using?

The one I'm currently using is online, which is a pain because it means I can only use it when I am online.

seanan_mcguire

August 27 2008, 23:49:56 UTC 8 years ago

Chris set me up a form of Media Wiki -- he put the details in a comment on (I think) the previous post.

I should ask him to do a guest post on setting up and configuring one of those. It's brilliant the way he has it working -- all on a thumb drive.

miladyinsanity

August 28 2008, 09:12:08 UTC 8 years ago

I found the comment. I'm going to go poke around now. Thanks!

And if you could ask him to do a guest post of something, that would be wonderful!

seanan_mcguire

August 28 2008, 14:09:16 UTC 8 years ago

I think I will, 'cause it's funny.