Archive for December, 2010
Looking forward, I see a dearth — a yawning wide open chasm of hopelessness, like some kind of spectral mouth-and-butthole combo pack that eats our dreams and craps them out devoid of all their goodness — where genre literature has no “somethingpunk” on the horizon. That saddens me.
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Last year, I wrote a post about this book I’d read — Santa Steps Out: A Fairy-Tale For Grown-Ups — which was a terribly demented (yet kinda sweet) Christmas story about how the Tooth Fairy seduces Santa Claus and how the world is kind of… caught in the middle of this mess.
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I figure, why not join the fracas? Why not leap forth, kick my heels, and splashdown into the Prognostication Party, the Doomsayer’s Delight, the Soothsayer’s Soiree? Here goes: my predictions for the Future of Publishing as of the Year 2010. (*poop noise*)
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Copy-editing is something you can do in a single pass. But I’d suggest that a content edit requires a lot more time and perspective. Below, I’ll talk about the areas of content you’ll want to address, and it might be of value to you to address each area in its own pass.
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By which I mean I’m sick, and I have work to do. I can’t really do it — been up since Ass O’ Clock with stomach bug problems. Point is, as a full-time employee you generally get sick days — stay home, get better, get paid. Blegh. Blegh, I say, blegh. So, no real blog posting today. I will instead use this as an opportunity to refill my Blog Tanks with Word Juice.
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