{"id":186,"date":"2012-05-04T16:49:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2012-05-04T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:51:35","slug":"edits-r-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Exclamation Points !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the edits are finally done and sent off to the publisher. Yeah! Now I can go see The Avengers <\/a><\/em>as a celebration!<\/p>\n

It’s weird what a read-through can turn up. I’m really glad they sent me this round of edits. The thing that jumped out at me on this the 75th read-through–exclamation points. Lots of them! Lots and lots and lots of them! <\/a>No, really! More than in this paragraph!<\/p>\n

As soon as I noticed that there were sometimes three on a page (often in the dialogue of an ardent sumo fan, so I forgave myself just a little) I about croaked and stopped the edit on page 100 or wherever and went back to the start to do a “find and replace.” It was appalling how many “track edits” marks are in the margin with deleted exclamation points.<\/p>\n

Why doesn’t someone, a kind beta reader<\/a>, protect me from myself on things like this? !!!<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I’m just thankful I caught it because there’s a chance this could be the final round of edits before it goes to proofreading and then to galleys.<\/p>\n

Now, all I’m left with is happiness that it’s done–and that lingering paranoia that there’s another glaring error<\/em> that I’ve completely been blind to.<\/p>\n

(Oh, and on a happy note…my ARCs of Big in Japan<\/a> arrived in the mail! So happy to hold them in my hot little hand. And I do mean hot. It’s about 99 degrees this afternoon. Whew!)<\/p>\n

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