Sorry about the brevity of this post, but the guillotine dangling over my head is making it hard to think of something to write about today. See, my editor sent the page proofs for Different Dream Parenting about a week ago, and they have to be completed – along with the index – by August 17.
So my mind is a litany of picky, precise corrections…
- Is that the current, politically correct way of referring to that special need?
- Yikes, another grammatical error!Hmmm…don’t like the placement of that side bar.
- Or that one.
- Or that one.
- Has that been the style for labels throughout the book?
- Does that sentence sound right?
…that continue non-stop for 327 pages, along with a series of indexing conundrums…
- Oh, there’s a term that should be in the index.
- No, it shouldn’t.
- Yes, it should.
- No, it shouldn’t.
- Yes, it should.
…that continue for slightly fewer pages, only because the dedication, table of contents, and appendices don’t make good index fodder.
Come August 17, my personal Bastille Day, my horizons will expand beyond the world of punctuation, grammar, page design, and key words. Until then, forgive the brevity of this post…
- Did I already say something like that?
- Is that correct grammar?
- Did that sentence sound right?
- Should Bastille Day be in the index?
- Yes.
- No.
- Yes.
- No.
- What about guillotine?
Hmmm…
