#amediting

[elingregory]

There's something incredibly dispiriting about trying to get a story as perfect as a very imperfect newbie writer can manage, just about get it sorted, convert it from a .doc to a .rtf as required by the publisher and then discover it's a sea of red as ALL the spaces either side of the quote marks throughout the story have disappeared! Again - after one of my betas did such sterling work in picking them out before. :(

I can put it right but I'm worried stiff now. What if I send off my piece and when [if] it's opened those damned spaces have disappeared again? Honestly I expected to be putting right my bad choices of words, repetitions, crutch words, and tweaking the story arc into a more interesting shape but arsey machines and software are a bit beyond my ability.

I think I'll cheer myself up by writing something silly.

Comments

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

I've gone through it now and made the alterations so fingers crossed it's okay, but I would be very grateful if I could send it to you just to check whether it's something to do with my version of Word. I have Word 2010 that I got through my place of employment, and it's perfectly possible, knowing the IT department, that it's not the complete package but some truncated version they got on the cheap. Should have thought of that, really, shouldn't I?

Will send the doc now. You're a star!