Editing Logistics

[rec]

I thought it might be useful to share some information on various logistics used in the editing process. I hope this thread will induce other editors/authors to describe how they do the editing logistics.

 

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[Bester]

Pretty much me, except I do it all in redline myself - I don't have Word 2007 and the doc compare feature on earlier versions of Word sucks an unbelievably huge amount. It doesn't intuitively recognise changes very well, and you get more markups than you actually made changes. And, anyway, on the top left of the toolbar in word, you can change the view settings to "final no markup" - that means you can work with track changes on, but you can't see the markups. Then, when its ready to send to the author, you change the view setting to "final show markup" and they magically appear.

[TalonRider]

For me, when I receive a chapter from an author, it goes into a folder with that authors name.

 

Each authors folder contains a folder with the stories title.

Inside that folder is one for the original file, the first edit, the second edit, and a final.

The first thing I do after opening the original file is, do a save as and add TE1: Chapter 1 TE1.

The author will send the story back for a second go around looking something like this: Chapter1TE1.

If nothing needs to be changed after the second edit, the I send the file back like this: Chapter 1 F.

 

My normal way of working with the story is to activate Track Changes and run Grammar/Spell Check. I don't rely on G/SC 100%. Once this is done, I then read it thru slowly.

 

If an author can't use Track Changes, then I will leave bracketed comments in the story.

 

Jan