And boy, am I grateful.
Going through copy edits is nerve-wracking, because you really want everything to be perfect, and there is always the fear that you really screwed up and got something terribly wrong in the plot and you won't know how to fix it. I have to change the name of a town because if I use a real town, then I have to make everything in it right, and I'd rather fudge it and have fun with it. I had to do more research on everything from obstetrics to funeral parlors because the more real those facts are, the better.
So I'll be done by Wednesday, I think. Liberating! Freeing! I can work on my new novel! I can finish my script!
I can wait for page proofs.
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An interesting difference. When I finish a novel, maybe in part because I go through the mss so many times, I feel finished. Done. My wife, bless her gorgeous soul, checks the copy edits and proofs the galleys. I have by that time long ago moved on into another story, and it is just too jarring for me to, in a phrase, kick a dead horse.
I do sense here, though, that you are also antsy to move on.
Oh, I absolutely am. I am almost finished with a draft of another novel, and am halfway through a script, so going back to the novel is anxiety producing!
Great, Caroline!
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