Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: quixotic
  • Music: Counting Crows, 'Have You Seen Me Lately?'

Gems from the proofing mines.

Time once again for my favorite semi-regular feature, Horrible Things What Seanan's Proofreaders Say To Her. Today's special guest star is Brooke, taking us for a tour of her wonderful, terrible lagoon with the following gems.

* "Sort of" and "real" need to have a totally hot double date together in the wishy-washy modifier bistro, which is way more romantic than this sentence. Hop in, guys! Alligatormousine will take you right there! Chop chop! Cupid awaits!

* This digression is mildly boring. Toby is bored because she's bad at it, but not the kind of bored where she starts fights, so I'm bored too.

* Needs a serving of Pronoun-Aid, The Handy Kitchen Helper That Clarifies While-U-Wait.

* That would be a really affecting sentence except for how it starts with almost. ALMOST! ALLIGATOR AQUACISE HOUR! 10% discount when you sign up for two classes at the Lagoon fitness center!

Bless you, Brooke, for the way you abuse me. Also, I suggest you lock the doors tonight before you go to bed. I know where you sleep.
Tags: editing, i love my editors, late eclipses, proofreading, silliness
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seanan_mcguire

April 7 2009, 20:11:53 UTC 8 years ago

Several people came up to me after the concert and said that when I was called up, "Wicked Girls" was what they were expecting to hear. :) I adore that song -- mostly, I'm ambivalent to negative about my own work, but that song, I feel I'm allowed to love -- and I love that people do it.

I'm so glad you got to hear that from them. Oh, my Alice, she treats my words so sweetly.

catvalente

April 7 2009, 20:39:25 UTC 8 years ago

I am an Alice nut. It's hard for me to even talk about, Alice is so deeply entrenched a part of my psyche and my heart. A lot of songs and literature about her puts me off, because that's not /my/ Alice.

But this song drew me from across the house, like a little girl to a warm window. I haven't heard many of your songs, despite reading a lot of lyrics. But I love this one, and wish it were recorded.

seanan_mcguire

April 7 2009, 20:46:52 UTC 8 years ago

"Wicked Girls" is very much a symbolic set, for me, and Vixy is my Alice (and I'm her Dorothy), and the way she sings the things I write sometimes makes me cry a lot. It's so wonderful.

My fairy tale girl is really a fairy tale girl -- I'm a little mermaid who grew up to be Snow White, and there's a headache and a half waiting to happen, but it's glorious.

There's a very rough version of the song that's linked somewhere from this journal, if you don't have it; we're going to record it more properly, soon.

seanan_mcguire

April 7 2009, 21:00:52 UTC 8 years ago

Also, you might like this:

"Breathe the Wonder."