I know,
I know, I should have loaded this earlier, but it’s still the 28th
right? I was having a hard time on how to conclude this…
*
*
Okay so
you’ve just got your book back from the editor. Your heart beats hard in your
chest as you download it into your computer and hope they like it. You open it
up and start to look through it.
I have a
couple of tips to make your life easier as you work your way through the edits.
Do you
have the same program as your publisher? Can you see the track changes? Can you
see the comments the editor made? Questions they might have asked? I bring this
up because most publishers use MS Word and if you don’t have that program you
might not be able to see the comments they could make.
Do you
know how to use track changes? In MS Word if you look up at the top of the
screen you’ll see a line of words – file, home, insert, page layout, reference,
mailings, review, and view. If you click
on the word review you’ll see the bar below it change. About half way across in
that lower bar is track changes. If it is on the background it sits on turns
yellow. When it’s off it is white. I found out when I get my ms’s back from my
editor and I turn it off I can still accept and reject their changes. The great
thing is that if I find something I need to fix that the editor didn’t mark I
can make my changes without having to approve everything I alter.
I also
like the using the accept and reject section in the toolbar when I have a few
of those pesky track changes I can’t seem to find. That shows it to me every
time. Normally, I just right click on the underlined section and a box will
appear that allows me to do the same thing the tool bar does.
Really
early versions of Word put the comments in the body of the documents but as
they kept upgrading the program it moved to the side of the document – the one
nice thing is they are easy to delete when you have completed the comment or to
add to it if you need to. Just right click to delete if you don’t want to use
the tool bar up top.
I still
haven’t figured out how to end this particular blog. I hope this info helps you
and I’ll be continuing with the editing process next month.
Barb:)
Bio:
Barbara Donlon Bradley wears many hats. She’s a mother, wife, care-giver, author, and editor. She’s a senior editor for Melange Books, and writes for Phaze and Melange books/Satin Romances with over twenty titles under her belt.
Barbara Donlon Bradley wears many hats. She’s a mother, wife, care-giver, author, and editor. She’s a senior editor for Melange Books, and writes for Phaze and Melange books/Satin Romances with over twenty titles under her belt.
Author Sites:
Website: http://www.barbaradonlonbradley.com/
Publisher: http://www.phaze.com/author.php?author=21
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the image I used came from my pinterest account - and from writer-write-creative-blog.posthaven.com
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