May 07
20 Chapters…
Posted: under Editing, the writing life.
Tags: craft of writing, progress report, the book business, the writing life May 7th, 2010
…of copy edits corrected. There are only (!) 39 chapters, but more words in the last nineteen than in the first twenty.
I quit after finishing chapter 20, a few minutes ago. Tired. Tired of all the little red marks and having to check every single one. Copy-editing is a tough job for the copy-editor, but the CE’s job is one of marking anything that strikes him or her as off.