Today It's All About The Book

I've done the first 45 pages and am taking a break. The plan is that today I'll go through the manuscript with a highlighter, little dots, and sticky notes; and then tomorrow I'll type up notes about each place I marked. It's stressful because I'm afraid I'll miss something (sure, a copy editor has gone over every page, but when you used to teach college comp and are just maybe the tiniest bit anal about stuff like, oh, semicolons, well: knowing a copy editor has gone over it doesn't mean a whole lot, especially if you've had one in the past who didn't know the difference between "lie" and "lay." This is the sort of thing that haunts my sleep, as you might guess).

Still, I'm having fun re-living our travels from last year. Way more fun to re-live them this way--sitting in our bright living room sewing annex with classical piano solos on the iPod, fresh coffee, all the cats being cute and crazy because the weather's shifting--than it would be to actually be waking up in oh, say, Warwick, Rhode Island, Home of the Skankiest La Quinta on the Planet.

Plus My Fabulous Editor, Tonia, left in some of my favorite bits--always cool to find those. With my horrid memory, editing is often like reading something for the first time--I feel like I should take notes, like, "Oh, that's cool--I should write that down."

Duh.

OK--back to work. Hope you have a wonderfully productive Sunday of your own~~

PS--Don't forget to check your local thrift:  Sundays are half-off-clothes-days at my local Goodwill. Maybe yours, too?

XO