Notes from a galley slave

[pbray]

I suck.

Eyeballs bleeding.

The only thing that makes this process worth it is the occasional bit that makes me think "Yes, that really worked." And the chance to catch typos before they become enshrined on the printed page.

Wish there were more good bits, but trust me, even the best of prose looks pretty crappy when you are staring at it word by word, punctuation mark by punctuation mark.

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[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Yes, I've seen books like that, too: back when the company I work for still had a printing plant, they used to take a lot of outside jobs, essentially self-publishing projects, and the results were usually pretty awful.

And yet, you'd be surprised how often authors (in my field of operations, anyway) get really offended because the copy editor corrected their grammar...