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The cold never turned into anything, so I guess I'll be sloping off to the LJ MeetUp in a couple of hours... I suppose I had better get my shower now so I'm not running around with wet hair in this weather, or I will get sick.
Spent the afternoon reprinting manuscript pages that had conspicuous bobbles on them due to a Technical Difficulty: I have a version of Courier that draws underlinings through the tails of the 'y's and 'g's, and a version that draws them properly but only prints 23 lines of text to the double-spaced page, so I decided to split the difference and set just the lines that needed it into the flabbier version, thereby saving about 100 pages of printout over using that version for the whole manuscript (and the interspersing isn't really noticable on the page unless you know it's there to look for). However, this meant going over 383 pages of 12 point Courier on-screen MANUALLY, which took me six hours, and I still missed 37 pages' worth of the little bastards. Next chore before I go out tonight is to interleave the corrected sheets back into the master and the mailing-copy (and since we couldn't tell which was which when we were doing the copying, I decided to simply print the corrected pages rather than make another trip to Kinko's...)
A brainstorm strikes: since matters are moving into the phase where time is measured in months, and since there's a persistent-text doohickey available to me now that I've settled on Component for my newly Paid account, I shall use the text-box over there to your right for the Status Report on the Manuscript's progress through the publishing world. Currently I'm still on schedule for popping it into the mail to the first victim on Friday...
My first attempt is going direct to a smaller independent publisher of SF&F who still look at unagented manuscripts and prefer to simply see the whole manuscript right off. While they're Thinking About It, I'll be working up the presentation to An Agent and prioritizing the list; I may in fact be able to interleave the submission time for this, considering that these are two different ends of things, and send the agent-submission-query out timed to the projected response of the publisher; still thinking about this as I look over the 'reports back by' schedules.
For the record: spellchecking turned up 7 mistakes out of 102,000 words. Quite pleased with myself. :) (And WordPerfect's spellcheck also has a 'the the' check built in, so that was one less thing to have to do by hand...)
Spent the afternoon reprinting manuscript pages that had conspicuous bobbles on them due to a Technical Difficulty: I have a version of Courier that draws underlinings through the tails of the 'y's and 'g's, and a version that draws them properly but only prints 23 lines of text to the double-spaced page, so I decided to split the difference and set just the lines that needed it into the flabbier version, thereby saving about 100 pages of printout over using that version for the whole manuscript (and the interspersing isn't really noticable on the page unless you know it's there to look for). However, this meant going over 383 pages of 12 point Courier on-screen MANUALLY, which took me six hours, and I still missed 37 pages' worth of the little bastards. Next chore before I go out tonight is to interleave the corrected sheets back into the master and the mailing-copy (and since we couldn't tell which was which when we were doing the copying, I decided to simply print the corrected pages rather than make another trip to Kinko's...)
A brainstorm strikes: since matters are moving into the phase where time is measured in months, and since there's a persistent-text doohickey available to me now that I've settled on Component for my newly Paid account, I shall use the text-box over there to your right for the Status Report on the Manuscript's progress through the publishing world. Currently I'm still on schedule for popping it into the mail to the first victim on Friday...
My first attempt is going direct to a smaller independent publisher of SF&F who still look at unagented manuscripts and prefer to simply see the whole manuscript right off. While they're Thinking About It, I'll be working up the presentation to An Agent and prioritizing the list; I may in fact be able to interleave the submission time for this, considering that these are two different ends of things, and send the agent-submission-query out timed to the projected response of the publisher; still thinking about this as I look over the 'reports back by' schedules.
For the record: spellchecking turned up 7 mistakes out of 102,000 words. Quite pleased with myself. :) (And WordPerfect's spellcheck also has a 'the the' check built in, so that was one less thing to have to do by hand...)
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