Dropping out of the choir concert was definitely the right decision:\u00a0 the hours I\u00a0 did not spend driving to and from the city, and in rehearsal, have been put to use, and the lessened strain helped too.\u00a0\u00a0 Usually I spend a lot of time in prep for a concert working on the piano at home, listening to rehearsal tapes or CDs of the music, and I like to come into a concert able to “hear” my part in my head the whole way through, no doubts.\u00a0 This time I couldn’t–and I could not take the time to do the prep work I wanted to do.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That made it harder to concentrate on the edits.<\/p>\n
Where I am now is page 609 of 862 (I have no idea how the other page got in there!!\u00a0 Will check to make sure there’s not a blank one as a last pass.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Production is scheduling the copy editor, so the thing must go back when I said I’d send it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t bore you with the process any more, having described it before, except to say I’ve found weird little fossils of former drafts, most of which Editor caught and some of which I found lying there like a petrified log, right in the middle of something else.\u00a0 Editor and I find different kinds of fossils, which is interesting.<\/p>\n
The hardest thing was finding in the new form the sections whose positions had been changed from the order that Editor had worked on.\u00a0\u00a0 Then there’s the\u00a0 temptation that Dorothy L.\u00a0 Sayers described so brilliantly in Gaudy Night<\/em>, with the scholar who kept changing things as a book was going through production.\u00a0 In my case, the temptation to plump up a subplot,\u00a0 give a character more lines to fully express himself, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 Or tweak this phrase one more time.<\/p>\n Back to work.\u00a0 I need to get to page 650 before I quit tonight and it’s already 8:42 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dropping out of the choir concert was definitely the right decision:\u00a0 the hours I\u00a0 did not spend driving to and from the city, and in rehearsal, have been put to use, and the lessened strain helped too.\u00a0\u00a0 Usually I spend a lot of time in prep for a concert working on the piano at home, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editing","category-the-writing-life","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}