100 things, writing, #33, how to embarrass yourself in a few easy steps

[jana_denardo]

{Take the 100 Things challenge!}

How to feel utterly embarrassed: Look at your edits from the publishing house and realize that you accidentally deleted an entire paragraph, not once but TWICE and then repeated a paragraph at least once and NEVER noticed before sending it in for consideration. (I guess I should be kissing their feet for accepting this hot mess for the anthology in the first place).

I do know what happened. 1. I was rushing. I think I got this in the day before the deadline passed or something close to it. 2. When using the edits from the first reader I inadvertently erased something while trying to use her edits 3. duplicated the paragraph using her edits rather than pasting it OVER the preexisting one.

In all honesty, most of the edits for Peace in the Valley were minor things (like me not knowing what the hell to do with a comma) or passive tense or the fact that readers are saying they hate semi-colons. But those mess ups were SO embarrassing. I didn't have time to reread after I used my beta's suggestions. D'Oh!

At least they enjoyed how geeky Anthony and John are (omg all my boys are turning into geeks)

Comments

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

No matter what your manuscript looked like after the editors went through it, it probably didn't have more lines, bubbles, corrections and comments than the two members of my local writers' group who use the professional editors. The editing pros are truly amazing (and scary).

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

oh it might have but honestly it was all minor crap except for the idiotic move of erasing whle paragraphs when I used ELD's edits. WHee. I'm special