A Step in the Write Direction
May 27, 2013
Update: Had a good week. Got a
year older, but at my age, that’s a good thing! Enjoyed a free breakfast at
Denny’s and IHOP and still have coupons for a free Johnny Rocket’s, free dessert
at Mimi’s, and a free drink at Starbuck’s. (Then I’ll need to join Weight
Watcher’s or TOPS.) Now to get busy on editing the father/grandfather anthology
and get it to the publisher.
Got a new computer last weekend, so now I have to get
used to Word 2007 instead of 2003. I’m
sure I’ll like it when I figure out how to save, print, spell check, etc. It
sure is a lot faster than my seven-year-old machine!
Received an invitation to teach three classes at the
CLASS conference (formerly at Glorieta, now in Albuquerque) in November. Will
respond to them within a couple of days. Waiting to see if my friend is invited
too so we can share a room and other expenses that aren’t covered.
A sharp reader pointed out that I had a typo in the last
blog, but I didn’t write you all to correct it. Thought you’d have fun finding
it and knowing that I’m human! (You know, to have a typo is human; to catch it
is divine!)
Thanks today to all our veterans and military who
are keeping our country free!
Question: Do you prefer getting
this blog within your email, or would you rather just have a link to click on? I
know personally, if it’s in the email I read it right away; links I put off till
I have more time. How about you?
Thought for Today:
Frequently the richest answers are not the
speediest…
A prayer may be all the longer on its voyage
because it is
bringing us a heavier freight of blessing.
Delayed answers are not only trials of faith,
but they give us an opportunity of honoring
God
by our steadfast confidence in Him under apparent
repulses (C. H. Spurgeon)
Laugh for Today:
A company manager is reviewing Smith’s application and
notices that he has never worked in accounting before and has no qualifications
in accounting. He says to Smith, “For a man with no experience, you are
certainly asking for a high salary.”
“Well, Sir,” replies Smith, “the work is so much harder
when you don’t know what you’re doing!”
Reader’s
Question: Remind me again, what is the going
rate for proofreading? For editing? For reading a manuscript to endorse? What is
the difference between those functions, i.e, if proofing looks for typos,
editing looks for errors, then endorsement looks for ??? Or do I have that all
wrong?
Answer: My proofreading rate is $1.25/double-spaced
page; line-by-line editing is
$2/page. Proofreading is mainly looking for typos; editing is looking
for grammar mistakes, overused words, weak words, sentence structure, maybe even
changing the order of paragraphs, etc. An endorsement is written by someone who
(hopefully) has read the book and recommends it to
readers.
Another
question: I'm getting confused with endnotes and footnotes. I'm reading
that they are the same thing, but just placed in different locations. I'm told
that my book's endnotes will be at the back of the book, so does that mean I
don't have to also do a bibliography or footnotes? I also have to make all my
chapters as one continuous flow, not 15 chapters on 15 files, but one continuous
flow of chapters. I know that I use the page break feature to go from the end of
one chapter to the start of the next but how does that affect endnotes, when
they automatically go at the end of each chapter and mine are supposed to be at
the back of the book? I guess I don't get how I'll separate out the endnotes by
chapter.
Answer: Although the format of
endnotes and footnotes are the same, footnotes go at the bottom of each page;
endnotes go at the end of the book.
(A few publishers put them at the end of each chapter, but this is rare.) When
you go to “Reference” on the toolbar, it will ask you whether you want footnotes
or endnotes. A section break (not a page break) is necessary so that your
endnotes will begin at #1 again in your new chapters; otherwise, they will
number consecutively from the beginning of the book to the end. (The only time
I’ve done this is when I had only 8 or 10 for the entire book, and then it
wasn’t worth it to divide them into chapters.). You include a bibliography when you want to send the
reader to other recommended books on the same subject Hope this helps!
Have a good week spreading the
gospel
through the printed
page.
Donna Clark Goodrich
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