Editing!

[annathepiper]

I have now successfully navigated through revisions for the first six chapters of Faerie Blood. So far the experience has been very easy; it’s pretty much just like getting feedback from beta readers, especially given that most of my editor’s requested changes are quite minor. I’ve only found a couple that seem weird to me, so I’ve been able to spend some time thinking about those and coming up with possible compromise alternatives.

This is really rather fun!

And okay, yeah, fine, Word is a Microsoft product, Microsoft is evil blah blah blah blah–but I gotta say, Word’s Track Changes mode is super-useful. The ability to just drop in suggested changes and have another reviewer of the file accept or delete them is unbelievably helpful. So’s the ability to put in commentary. It does make me wonder whether non-Word word processors can interact with this feature at all. I’ll have to remember this for the next time I open up anything for beta reading.

Time for bed. More editing tomorrow.

Edited today and tonight: Up through Chapter 6! 17 more chapters to go.

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

There's a reason people use Word, and that's it. XD

[annathepiper]

Hee!

I've just checked OpenOffice out of curiosity, to see whether it could see the proposed changes at all in the RTF file. It did, but only sorta kinda, and it doesn't see the comment bubbles over on the side. So this makes OO less interesting as an option, I think.

[pauldf.livejournal.com]

I also really like Word's Track Changes mode. It's like accepting diff patches for latex files, only it's not a programming language, it's actually a word processor.

[annathepiper]

Which fits splendidly into the conviction I've had for some time that writing a book is a lot like software development! And now I'm working on the release candidate! ;)