{"id":162,"date":"2007-08-23T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T06:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/08\/23\/im-hibernating-because-im-dealing-with-the-copyedit\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T01:20:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T06:20:46","slug":"im-hibernating-because-im-dealing-with-the-copyedit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/im-hibernating-because-im-dealing-with-the-copyedit\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m hibernating because I&#8217;m dealing with the copyedit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with a book opyedit is sort of a strange process if you have never dealt with it before, though<a href=\"http:\/\/pbray.livejournal.com\/56015.html?thread=179663\"> good advice can be found on the Internet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing: you need to buy colored pencils, and not of colors already used, to write responses on the manuscript to the copy editors questions. I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crayola.com\/educators\/techniques\/colored_pencils.cfm\">Crayola erasable colored pencils<\/a>, then discovered that they were too soft to write precisely in the margins. I realized I neeed to go to an art store for higher quality pencils, but there are no art stores in Harlem. So a friend brought me her set.Other things for your copyediting kit, you need post-it notes, a pencil sharpener (weird trying to dig that up&#8230;I haven&#8217;t used one of those since  art class in high school since it&#8217;s now all about the mechanical pencil), and a pad of paper. Also, you need a printer and paper if you are going to make significant rewriting that will not fit in the margins. And if you do inserts, you create pages like page 152a.<\/p>\n<p>And then you send it back, as a paper document, but make sure to make copies. And they retype it, which to me seems like it would create opportunities for more mistakes. But I am reassured that this is better than converting a document from Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with a book opyedit is sort of a strange process if you have never dealt with it before, though good advice can be found on the Internet. One thing: you need to buy colored pencils, and not of colors already used, to write responses on the manuscript to the copy editors questions. I bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-2C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}