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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi, everybody. Editing like crazy.
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi, everybody. Editing like crazy. Editing like crazy?  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The book, I assume.
New career for you, JC?  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi, everybody. Editing like crazy. Be as much fun as debugging code no doubt.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Something like that. Editor wanted some rewrite in one chapter. Rest is fixing verbs, POV [point of view], punctuation, punctuation, punctuation [why, oh why, do I forget the last comma in a series???], avoiding word duplication, and pruning my adverb usage.
---------------------------------------- JC'ed 'cause I forgot the series comma!  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 20, 2008 11:51:12 AM] |
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Johnny Cool
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Post Count: 8621 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Something like that. Editor wanted some rewrite in one chapter. Rest is fixing verbs, POV [point of view], punctuation, punctuation, punctuation [why, oh why, do I forget the last comma in a series???], avoiding word duplication, and pruning my adverb usage. JC'ed 'cause I forgot the series comma! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Something like that. Editor wanted some rewrite in one chapter. Rest is fixing verbs, POV [point of view], punctuation, punctuation, punctuation [why, oh why, do I forget the last comma in a series???], avoiding word duplication, and pruning my adverb usage. JC'ed 'cause I forgot the series comma! The one before "and"? I learned at school that it was optional to have a comma there, though I generally prefer having it to not. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Something like that. Editor wanted some rewrite in one chapter. Rest is fixing verbs, POV [point of view], punctuation, punctuation, punctuation [why, oh why, do I forget the last comma in a series???], avoiding word duplication, and pruning my adverb usage. JC'ed 'cause I forgot the series comma! The one before "and"? I learned at school that it was optional to have a comma there, though I generally prefer having it to not. In my next life I'm going to your school ovo.. We copped the ruler across knuckles for putting commas before 'and'.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
 /writes a note from my parents that I am VERY sick and won't be going to school this year |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Almost done...
Everyone here seems to worship the Chicago Style Manual - which was known as bad writing when I was in school back in the dark ages... |
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