Welcome back, everybody.
I’d planned on using two days for this, but once I started thinking about splitting the material into a two documents, the less useful I figured it would be.
So I’ve put all the track changes material into one .pdf. You can get it here.
I thought about putting more “Weird Things That Can Go [...]
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Welcome to the easy day of boot camp. In comparison to the others, this tier, while important, ought to seem like nothing.
Tier III: Packaging is all about punctuation and formatting.
And guess what? No huge mongo-long post today. Because wordpress doesn’t lend itself terribly well to modifying certain punctuation characters, I’ve done this entire tier in [...]
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Quick announcement: There’s been a schedule change. The Track Changes portion of the workshop requires a couple more experiments (I really, really hate Microsoft Works and Open Office right now), so I’ve moved the Track Changes days of Boot Camp to Monday August 4th and Tuesday August 5th instead of Thursday and Friday of this [...]
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I’ve got good news for you, and bad news.
Being a bad-news-first sort of girl, here it is: Self-editing is hard work. Perhaps even harder than writing.
The good news is — relatively speaking — I’ve been a writer for thirteen years. I’m also an acquiring copy editor, so I’ve seen submissions.
That means while I can’t tell [...]
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