I think of the manuscripts I edit as scruffy children who need to be cleaned up and dressed in their Sunday best. I started freelance copyediting for Oxford University Press in 1987 when I was a graduate student. At that time, we edited on paper, using red fine-liner pens. Neat, legible handwriting was essential. When portions of the text needed to be moved, we actually cut up the pages and pasted them onto blank pages for insertion, hence the scissors and tape, which I seldom use now. There were no budgets or deadlines; we were instructed to do whatever was necessary to make the book correct. I worked directly with the author and received a complimentary copy of the book when it was published.
Im reading this while on a fishing boat just off an Island off the coast of NZ... I have such a different life than you... but we share the love of fantasy... substack is a house of magic portals !
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I can't teleport back to life as it was when I wrote this post or even when I wrote "The Window in My Mind" (my favorite post). But I like the idea of creating magic portals and love the idea of exploring the ones that are out there on Substack.
This is a wonderful tour of the artifacts that surround you in life! It is great that you are able to cycle them onto the next "user" when appropriate, so they do not pile up and become junk. Living life "lightly". Glad you are getting rid of the APA manual. Working on a hybrid approach with APA and Chicago sounds like a minefield nightmare.
Im reading this while on a fishing boat just off an Island off the coast of NZ... I have such a different life than you... but we share the love of fantasy... substack is a house of magic portals !
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I can't teleport back to life as it was when I wrote this post or even when I wrote "The Window in My Mind" (my favorite post). But I like the idea of creating magic portals and love the idea of exploring the ones that are out there on Substack.
Thats awesome. All social media for me stopped the day I found substack :)
If you like portals to Gen X hobo nightmare realms... read my stuff :)
I don't know about that, but your first post was very funny. I subscribed.
I am sorry that you are leaving the country but glad that you will be near your daughter!
This is a wonderful tour of the artifacts that surround you in life! It is great that you are able to cycle them onto the next "user" when appropriate, so they do not pile up and become junk. Living life "lightly". Glad you are getting rid of the APA manual. Working on a hybrid approach with APA and Chicago sounds like a minefield nightmare.
Thanks for the inspiring visual tour.....