Monday, October 10, 2011

What we miss...

...this new book came back in a pdf composite draft. I and a copy editor from the publishing house had been over a previous draft a few weeks back. But when I went over the draft again this time, noticed that the typesetter had left out the conclusion from the Contents page and that the conclusion had been backed into the penultimate chapter of the book, an FAQ section. More than several eyes had reviewed this manuscript for issues--and we found many in both the first and second drafts. But a whole chapter being left out of the Contents and being combined with another chapter...? It just goes to show what most of us already know: the more we look at something we think we know, the more it looks like what we think it is supposed to be and not what it really is...

Complicated, mysterious, and difficult... that's writing.


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