Clayton Barnett on Nostr: After 18 books and being an old asshole, I do not take editing well. Copyediting? I ...
After 18 books and being an old asshole, I do not take editing well. Copyediting? I send out what I think is clean copy and get back what amounts to a blood-soaked manuscript. You will never, ever, see your own mistakes. For 60-70k words, 500 correxions is not at all unusual.
Published at
2024-06-09 19:24:38Event JSON
{
"id": "18090f375b7adc4ff25999f5d1637d6d15d2cb202ef2ceb36aa3966d31feb91a",
"pubkey": "8e05cf19c64428beace4c27f8bbcd2fddb322c488c5a4d309285fe7c642fa62f",
"created_at": 1717961078,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"p",
"04198996dc0d76836b27a69db950eeb42ff95b77851a29993a210aa36d8c5c65",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub"
],
[
"e",
"a8e22e9c833eb5aadba0167c443345324f86962947068c415226979c76a4a195",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://poa.st/objects/167f27a3-9df0-4490-a148-2138feffc936",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "After 18 books and being an old asshole, I do not take editing well. Copyediting? I send out what I think is clean copy and get back what amounts to a blood-soaked manuscript. You will never, ever, see your own mistakes. For 60-70k words, 500 correxions is not at all unusual.",
"sig": "942cd26f47cd8c5444b522a2ce4d0f3264a6a9325de62b8a33ca22bf11e8bf60670893b9ef3b8acc7cf8c6a41ded987a76892e208a93ae936c67d8ac2cc4034b"
}
