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ironed_orchid ([personal profile] ironed_orchid) wrote in [community profile] bitesizedreading2015-06-09 11:37 pm
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Daily Reading (June 9th)

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2015-06-09 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm proofreading-copyediting-editing all at once a book about postcards for a friend. (His great-grandmother's correspondence postcards! They are great! His prose needs... a little work with my hand sander.)
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-09 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck with managing the prose without giving offense.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2015-06-09 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
We have to have a talk about commas. I know he thinks he is right, and it is his thing, but by gum I am putting them in because otherwise it's just a stream of words without a breath. And hyphens.

He has it all dummied up in Word (I have tried to have talk with him about that too, Word just Suuuuuuucks for this) and only sent me a PDF so it is v v v difficult to read and correct.

He is a very good, longstanding friend and I do not mind.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2015-06-09 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Copy editing a PDF sounds like hell. At least with word you can make comments and track changes.
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