One more top down read\/revise pass before the Team Eagle Eye hand off. Looks like Thursday or Friday is the target date, about a week behind schedule. Ah, well. One man’s delay is another’s choreographed plan.<\/p>\n
By saving the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153finicky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d readers for this final pass, I hope to maximize their contributions. For instance, the less grammar glitches the gun expert encounters, the more focus he has for technical issues like weapons handling and police procedures.<\/p>\n
However, a persistent gotcha in my writing even after all these revisions: dropped words. It’s a virtual guarantee that out of every thousand words, a crucial one exists solely in my mind — not on the page. That’s progress, though. In the early days of the manuscript the ratio was one dropped word for every one hundred, which made for interesting reading.<\/p>\n
Dropped words are not my only problem; sometimes spelling errors take me downtown. Towards that end, here is my favorite howler from the novel:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153…and never slam ducks<\/em><\/strong> the big guys, then someone must be protecting them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n There’s more to the line, but using a fragment makes the glitch more obvious. Spell Check flagged that baby AOK, as did yours truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One more top down read\/revise pass before the Team Eagle Eye hand off. Looks like Thursday or Friday is the target date, about a week behind schedule. Ah, well. One man’s delay is another’s choreographed plan. By saving the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153finicky\u00e2\u20ac\u009d readers for this final pass, I hope to maximize their contributions. For instance, the less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}