Edits!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:35:21 GMT

I only wrote about half as many words today as I'd intended. About mid-day I received a marked up copy of my story "Flying High" by email today from my editor at Cobblestone Press, along with the CP style guide and a "how to" document for using Word's "track changes" feature. I'd have received them earlier (days earlier, I gather) but they'd somehow gotten my email address wrong in their database and the materials went astray. Today they straightened it out and sent me the materials with mucho apologies. I'm not put out by it--these things happen.

However, they wanted to get my edits back by the 26th--this isn't an onerous request as it's only a short story, not a novel--so I went over the edits this afternoon. I accepted most of them, suggested different edits for a couple, and made a couple of comments. Then I emailed it back.

I did the editing on my laptop, which runs Windows XP, because my primary PC runs linux and I use OpenOffice instead of Microsoft word. I didn't think OpenOffice could read or work with the track changes feature so I used Word on the laptop instead. But just a few minutes ago opened the emailed copy of my story (the one with the editor's changes rather than my own) in OpenOffice and discovered that I could, in fact, read and work with the changes in OpenOffice.

That's good. It means I don't have to depend on the laptop do my editing. In any case, that ends round 1 of three rounds of edits before it's ready to be published. I still don't know when it'll be published, but we're moving toward publication. Hurray!

Words Written Today: 1,434
Words Written YTD (since May 1): 125,100
Stories in Circulation: 9
Rejections: 9
Stories Accepted: ONE!

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