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issendai (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} issendai) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} otf_wank, |
In case you were wondering what it looks like...
*groan*
For the record, I've only copyedited technical writers and copywriters, and it usually goes like this:
Me: Here, have a page covered in red.
Them: Thanks. Here, have back a new version where we made the changes we liked.
Me: Here, have some fine-tuning.
Them: Here, have back a page that's completely fixed except for one typo that we inserted specially for this round.
Me: LOL typo. Here, have a nice perfect page.
Production: We took a crack at it. How's it look?
Me: Like you were on crack.
Production: How about now?
Me: Crack's wearing off.
Production: How about now?
Me: Almost poifect.
Production: Can we insert a typo?
Me: LOL typo. No.
Production: Aww.
Printer: We took a crack at it. How does it look?
[Choose one:]
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A.
Me: Lovely! Smack it on the ass and send it home to Mamma.
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B.
Me: AAAAUGH WTF HOW DID YOU ERASE ONLY THE CAPITAL I'S FROM ALL OF THE SUBHEADINGS
Production: LOL technical difficulties. How is it now?
Me: Peachy!
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...and at this point it vanishes into the ether, to arrive several months later as hardbound copies riddled with errors that several layers of editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, checkers, and production people totally missed. We are professionals, dammit, and we have industry-wide standards to uphold.
So yeah. Become a diva, pay asshole tax for as long as you can stay employed in the business. I gather it's different in fiction, but see... that's why I'm over here in technical writing with the sane people.
*groan*
For the record, I've only copyedited technical writers and copywriters, and it usually goes like this:
Me: Here, have a page covered in red.
Them: Thanks. Here, have back a new version where we made the changes we liked.
Me: Here, have some fine-tuning.
Them: Here, have back a page that's completely fixed except for one typo that we inserted specially for this round.
Me: LOL typo. Here, have a nice perfect page.
Production: We took a crack at it. How's it look?
Me: Like you were on crack.
Production: How about now?
Me: Crack's wearing off.
Production: How about now?
Me: Almost poifect.
Production: Can we insert a typo?
Me: LOL typo. No.
Production: Aww.
Printer: We took a crack at it. How does it look?
[Choose one:]
-----
A.
Me: Lovely! Smack it on the ass and send it home to Mamma.
-----
B.
Me: AAAAUGH WTF HOW DID YOU ERASE ONLY THE CAPITAL I'S FROM ALL OF THE SUBHEADINGS
Production: LOL technical difficulties. How is it now?
Me: Peachy!
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...and at this point it vanishes into the ether, to arrive several months later as hardbound copies riddled with errors that several layers of editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, checkers, and production people totally missed. We are professionals, dammit, and we have industry-wide standards to uphold.
So yeah. Become a diva, pay asshole tax for as long as you can stay employed in the business. I gather it's different in fiction, but see... that's why I'm over here in technical writing with the sane people.
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