To answer a recent question about my copy edits
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009Rebecca Royce Says:
February 15th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
What kinds of edits did they ask you for? Anything major.
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Thanks for the question Rebecca.
To be perfectly honest with you, I wasn’t sure how to answer your question specifically at first. I can now tell you. No, none of my changes were major.
When I received my copy edits mostly what I was asked to look at were repetitive sentence structure and some style changes to be in line with the house.
One big thing about me is I’m a total over achiever so as I went through the manuscript and I saw my habitual culprits. I reworked and then some. I wasn’t about to leave one section weaker than another. This is my baby and she was going to shine. I put a lot of time into my copy edits and got really wonderful feedback from my editor.
I’ll even confess, one of the sentences I favor, is stating it with a he or she. I’m in rehab. lol.
What’s really great about the process is now, I see myself doing it and stop. A momentary pause helps me rethink the sentence. Sometimes I change the order of the words and others… well. Depending on the point in the story but I might rethink the sentences around to make that section stronger.
I hope this answers your question. If not let me know.
Kiss,
Mason
