Daily Reading (June 9th)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

Comments

[movingfinger]

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.)

[ironed_orchid]

Good luck with managing the prose without giving offense.

[movingfinger]

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.

[ironed_orchid]

Copy editing a PDF sounds like hell. At least with word you can make comments and track changes.