Just slipping in quickly with this short poem, that perhaps tells you what I’ve been doing.
Insert ‘editing’ for ‘writing’ and you have my day in a nutshell. Copy edits have arrived for my new book. They’re starting to look very festive! 🙂
You can catch the Poetry Friday roundup at Carol’s Corner this week. For now though, I’d better get back to eating… er… exercising… errr… editing!!
Kathryn Apel 
Very festive! LOL Love the way you think of your breaks – to eat or not to eat.
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It’s amazing how much I can not eat in a day… & how much I can. #oops (I did go for a long, fast walk this afternoon!!)
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Taking two reluctant boys to orthodonture today. Lucky me! 🙂
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This sounds a lot like my writing process! Unfortunately, judging by my scale, I need to do a lot more exercising! Darn! It looks like you are editing online! That’s fascinating to me! I can’t wait to share this post and show my students how a “real author” works!
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I probably need to work a lot further away from my kitchen, Carol.
As to the edits – that’s the track changes option on Word. In some ways it’s good, but it also does my head in, all the clutter and colour. I think it’s the page equivalent to a rowdy room. I’ve decided I like black text on white page. And white space. Lots of it. 🙂
But then how would my lovely editor share her valuable feedback…?
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Ha! Getting up to walk around and “not” to the kitchen is a good thing! Best wishes on the edits!
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I should clarify, Linda… I do walk to the kitchen… and open the fridge door… then walk away empty-handed… Which is probably a good thing!!
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As long as you come back empty handed 9 times out of 10, I think you’re doing a fabulous job of…exercising!! Happy Copy Editing!
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Thanks, Mary Lee. Maintaining a good ratio… 😉
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Wow, thanks for sharing that picture of your edits! I’ve never seen a work-in-progress, and it’s really interesting to get a glimpse at how a book comes to be!
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The less colour/notes, the more my head likes it. So that’s motivation to get in and be productive. Just about to dive back in after time out for life/school…
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How you manage to slip a poem into such an intense time is amazing to me. I find the last edits and polish on something I’m planning to submit the most stressful and headache-creating times of writing. I’m sure your results will be wonderful!
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I think the poem was part of my sanity process, Violet. I also tweet quite a bit when I’m writing/editing productively. It’s like my little pressure-release valve. #shortandsweet
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Love the play with words. 🙂
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Thanks, Myra.
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