EH LuptonToday I have had to learn to spell "fluorescent," and guys, it is a *trip*.
Me, trying to solve a simple grammar problem before I've had a cup of coffee...
I often find that writer!brain and editor!brain have a hard time coexisting. I'm currently dealing with edits to the forthcoming novel, and having a hard time writing anything new. Just need to remind myself this is normal, and writing will come back when editing is done.
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Okay, here is my Writing Pro Tip for the day. If you're using Word on your laptop and you don't have a mouse, you can assign "accept change and move to next" to a keyboard shortcut and it will make your life way better than trying to right click things with a trackpad. Go to Options > Customize Ribbon -- keyboard shortcuts is randomly at the bottom of that page.
Okay guys, it turns out the expression where you let a line or something unreel behind you is "play out" rather than "pay out." How did I miss that one?
Deep questions I'm wrestling with while editing:
--it seems like everyone I know owns a sword. Is that weird? Do I know weird people?
--how many times in a day can one usefully eat breakfast, and does it continue to be breakfast after the first time?
--was that a Joycean reference or did I have a grammatical seizure?
This morning I opened my document, changed one sentence, waited a bit, changed it back, closed my document.
Yet another round of "why is the screen so dim" / "oh yes, I turned it down a few minutes ago so it wouldn't hurt my eyes."
It's a wonder anything ever gets done.
Snow day, but I got a sex scene that was bothering me revised before the kids woke up. Five chapters and one fight scene left to go through before this goes for editing.
From my original beta reader (who did a mini-developmental edit), it seems like chapters 17 and 18 were the biggest tangle, and after that, she got too involved in the story to have much comments. Which is cool, but man, straightening out the problems now is just the worst. Why can't everything have been perfect on the first try?