The State of the Meerkat, with bonus #writerbrain

[lauraanne_gilman]

"Let me get this right: you're worried because your editor really liked the book, and didn't find any major broken things you need to fix?"

"Yes!....*pause*...That's not normal?"

"...*sigh*..."


So maybe it's just me, I don't know. My editor's a smart, experienced woman, but I'm SURE the book has some major whoopsie in it... maybe the copyeditor will find it for me. Or, yeah, maybe I did sweep the table, this time. Maybe. *peers suspiciously at manuscript, which may or may not be peering back*


And that pretty much sums up this week for me. Working on the writer-edits for PROMISES TO KEEP. Working on the editor-edits for FIXED. Working on the cover(s) for both Sylvan Investigation novellas. Working with d.y.m.k. clients. There's other stuff going on too, some of which has required me to dress up in my adult person clothing and take lunch meetings, but it's nothing to be spoken of in public yet.

Oh, and waiting on one, two, three different checks from publishers, while I shuffle my budget to get through the month. I hate January.

Comments

[janetl]

I used to work in software testing. One of my coworkers was fretting. She was one of 3 people testing a Photoshop plug-in, and they hadn't found any big bugs yet. "Maybe there aren't any," we said. She was sure that there were, because there always are. She managed to to make the plug-in crash by creating 1,000 layers in a Photoshop image, and then she felt much better.

[lauraanne_gilman]

Considering my ability to break the Internet on a regular basis, and the above-described reaction, I probably should have gone into QA as a third career...