Land on Demand Editing Proofreading Indexing

along with some comments on the world of a freelance editor

Monday, October 29, 2012

Storm Alert: Sandy in SW VA

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From the local rag: “In Southwest Virginia, they’ve advised possibly toward the later part of the week we could be looking at rain or snow...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

George McGovern, RIP, and Other Stuff

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Of all the tomes I read in my younger days, I'd say that none politicized me like Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaig...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Report from Central Kentucky

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By my hasty calculations, close to one hundred times each and every day, maybe more, the monks at the Abbey of Gethsemani chant a version of...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sketches of Ulysses, 3

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From Wikipedia: The Rolling Stone Album Guide  calls it “a work of unparalleled grace and lyricism.” In 2003, the album was ranked number 35...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

More Interludes Than Running Text

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A book designer and I have worked together for years, occasionally contentiously, but I think that often came from the stress of dealing wit...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

The Art of the Snarky Query

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Trying to do a week's worth of work in a day, so not much time for a post. I don't feel right leaving that haiku stuff up too long, ...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Haiku Monday: Just Like the Lottery: You Can't Win If You Don't Play

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So many thoughts and themes. It’s been a long time since I’ve hosted, and I’m going to echo what previous hosts have been saying latel...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

Haiku Monday, 8/6/2012

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I have no idea what I’m doing here — in the winner’s position. I think the incomparable RafaDe granted me a Haiku Monday achievement/p...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

The Process: Ulysses 2

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Except for a three-and-a-half-year break when I was in college, I’ve been proofreading one way or the other since I was 14 years old. I’m 5...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Patient

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After living with this beast for the better part of the last three weeks, I'd almost like to say what Jon Voight said to Ned Beatty a...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Fear Is a Man's Best Friend

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A friend once uttered, "It is a wise man who every day learns something new to fear." I sent him the following quote the oth...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

Worship Music

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Go ahead, listen. It won't kill ya. Somewhere on this Sunday, it's my brother's fifty-seventh birthday. I suspect he will ...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

My Maria

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I'm working on the history of a venerable Catholic school in a bordering state, and I'm wondering if "Catholic girls, cute...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Karma? You Decide

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We then engaged Ed Thompson, who did a masterful job of translating the document into English, and Bod Land, who performed the editorial ta...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Organization Man

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[breathe] I’ve been wanting to write two posts for quite a while, and I’ve figured out a way to combine them. Now if I can just write....
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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Unleashing the Word Horde*

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Tired of looking at the old entry, and no time to compose anything coherent. If printed books are dead, no one bothered to tell my publisher...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

quote of the day

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"Observing isn’t the same as seeing. Our own research convinces us that educators do not describe what they see during a classroom obs...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Great Moments in Parenthood

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I have two sons. One just sat in his last college class today; he graduates in a few weeks. He has something like 198 credit hours, having...
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