Rantings, ravings and musings from the mama who wrote a book about full hands and a full heart -- the highs, the lows and all the in-betweens -- at least, on the days there is enough "spare time" to post
I'm the wife of a fantastic husband, the mother of four daughters, ages 14, 12, 8 and 3; I am a writer and book reviewer; I am very involved in church; I stay active in the community; I like to have flexibility in my life and in my schedule to be able to do what works best for me if at all possible; I am completely balanced between "right brain" and "left brain" and "upper" and "lower brain" quadrants, which generally means I like and am good at a variety of types of skills and interests; I love to travel and see new places and meet different people; I like to learn new things, like sewing, which I've gotten pretty decent at after maybe eight years of practice; I have a website that reviews and rates books for content, RatedReads.com
This comes from Sam Taylor's The Amnesiac, a really cool book. This British author writes about "sub-editors," which seem to be pretty close to what we term copy editors here in the States, and which I have done for a living. A copy editor is "essentially a kind of filter; it was my job to simplify and clarify other people's writing. I removed unnecessary sentences, corrected mistakes, reworked jumbled paragraphs. Where there was messiness, I brought order; where there was prolixity, brevity; where there was ambiguity, certainty. I was a policeman of words. I made each article fit neatly in its assigned box and sometimes gave it a headline too. The headlines were the sole source of amusement in the job: whereas in all my other tasks, I was expected to be sober, straightforward, machinelike, with the headlines I was free to have some fun. ... I don't remember now any of those headlines, but I remember the modest pleasure they gave me."
Thursday, May 31, 2007
More new photos!
Check the photosite again. I uploaded a few really cute ones. Well, I think they're very cute. Not biased or anything.
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