Sara: Oh crap! I'm FINALLY finished with this round of edits, but now my MS formatting is weird because I used two different programs while writing it. Half of my stupid em dashes reverted to regular old dashes.
*ponders*
Sara: Duh! I'll just do a replace all and change the dashes back to em dashes!
*replaces all dashes with em dashes*
Sara: Problem SOLVED! Man, I amaze myself with how smart I am sometimes...
*sends MS to CPs*
You may be wondering why NOT to do what I did (though if you're less blonde than I am, you already know). Well, it's because there are these things called hyphenated words. So when a fabulous CP goes through your draft, they get to see LOTS of words like high—pitched, instead of high-pitched. Like self—conscious, instead of self-conscious; star—crossed, instead of star-crossed; hip—hop, instead of hip-hop.
Yeah, I definitely did that before sending my last draft to Alexandra and Carol. Now that I've finished going through their notes, I'm surprised they're still even speaking with me.
*begs forgiveness*
In other news, I finished this round of revisions and *think* I only have one (and possibly a half) more before I'm ready to skydive from that great query plane in the sky...
*dies of nervousness*
PS. Image, and more information about dashes & em dashes found here.
♥ Sara
