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Moonlight Blogger
Essays from
the Subversive Copy EditorBlog
Carol Fisher Saller
Carol Fisher Saller is the author of The SubversiveCopy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships withYour Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself (University of Chicago Press,2009). Her most recent book is Eddies War (namelos, 2011), a historicalnovel for readers 10 and up.
This collection of essays accrued between May 2010 and August2011 at TheSubversive Copy Editor blog.
Kindleedition Carol Fisher Saller, 2011
Printedin the USA by CreateSpace
Contents
Moonlight Blogger
Lastnight I was lucky enough to sit near a popular public radio host at an awardsbanquet. (I wasnt supposed to sit at the head table, but I couldnt find a seatand someone there offered me one so I took it without realizing. By the time Ifigured it out, it was too late.) My book was up for an award, but I wasnt awinner, so I explained this to the radio guy, and then I felt that I had toclarify Not that Im a loser, just to make sure he didnt callsecurity or something about me sitting at the head table.
Anyway,the radio guy (lets call him Steve) asked about my book, which led us to talkabout sticklers, and it turns out that in radio, there are plenty of these.Steve says that people phone and e-mail the station all the time to complainthat someone speaking on the radio used the wrong verb or mispronouncedsomething. So now I have a whole new appreciation for all those gracious andarticulate and brave radio announcers who dont have a chance to readover and copyedit their words as they emerge at 150 miles a minute.
Althoughnaturally you already have things in common with your colleagues, goodrelationships at work shouldnt revolve exclusively around gossip or trashingthe boss. Just this week, I found the perfect project to rally my coworkers:pygmy goats. Who could resist? Right away, several of my colleagues agreed thatwe should buy a few and begin making cheese.
Solvingthe challenge of where to put the little guys created a bonding experiencewithin my group. Plan A is to ask the building manager to find a place for themin the way he found a place for people to park their bicycles. We will arguethat goats should be easier than bicycles, because the goats are smaller andfewer. Plan B is to approach the Chicago Theological Seminary for help. Theirnew building is going up literally next door, and since the CTS has beenboasting about the greenness of their new building (in spite of the fact thatthey demolished a revered community garden in the process of setting up theirconstruction site), we figure they should be willing to grow grass on the roofand let our small herd graze there.
Whateverthe outcome, working with my colleagues on this project has led to a great dealof mutual respect and team-building goodwill. Try it and see!
Iam so tired of people looking down their noses at my e-reader and explainingthat they love books. So today Im going to answer theircomplaints, one by one.
Book Lover: Because Im a person of passion and atrue intellectual, I love the feel, the smell, the je ne sais quoi of a realbook.
Me:Are you kidding? Recently I heard publisher Stephen Roxburgh speak to a groupof writers in a bookstore. He held up a 1710 edition of Swifts Tale of aTub, leather-bound with marbled papers, beautifully etched, letter-pressedon vellum. Three hundred years old and looking like new. He said, If you tellme you love this book, Im right there with you. He swept his arm toward thebookshelves. These? Pulp, fit for a landfill. Then he held up his new iPad.I also love this book, he said, and showed how, like the Swift, it was beautifullydesigned, a pleasure to examine and hold, and how, unlike the Swift, itscontent was actually readable and enjoyable.
Book Lover: You cant cuddle up with an e-book.
Me:But you can cuddle up with the latest Dan Brown hard cover? My e-book is smaller,lighter, and easier to read in any cuddling position, I guarantee you. You canturn pages with one hand and the type will turn sideways or upside down, if youask it to.
Book Lover: I dont want my books to glare at me.
Me:I will grant you that. Thats why I prefer an e-ink reader to an LED-lit one. Ican read it outdoors in the sun or in the romantic glow of the lamp on my bedtable.
Book Lover: I hate change.
Me:Well, you got me there.
Sometime ago I discovered in Googling myself (no, Im not ashamed of that) that myphone number is 773-633-671, that I created the website for the ChicagoManual of Style, andmost surprising of allthat I am the author of a bookabout ferrets. Being naive and optimistic, I tried to get the informationremoved or corrected, which, Im sure you know, is much more difficult thanputting toothpaste back in the tube (which is not that hard).*
Themost effective way to deal with misinformation about oneself is not to care.And over time, I truly have come not to care whether people believe that Iwrote a book about ferrets. But I do continue to care about accuracy inpublished media. Its something copyeditors are in a position to support.
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*V-e-r-ycarefully and slowly squeeze as much air from the tube as you can withoutletting any more toothpaste out. Then put the mouth of the tube against theescaped toothpaste and stop squeezing. The toothpaste should slurp right on in.Repeat five hundred times.
Lastevening I attended a lovely cello recital in a private home in my neighborhood.Sitting in the parlor listening to Brahms on a 1768 Benjamin Banks, many of usdeep in reverie (or snoozinghard to tell), I was startled to see at the verymoment of its toppling a teacup roll off its saucer from the lap of myabstracted neighbor Peggy. I tensed for the crash, but the cup hit the plushOriental, somersaulted gently onto the wood floor, and miraculously righteditself without a sound. At a suitable moment, I retrieved it from under thesettee and handed it back. Peggy inspected it for damage, caught her breath,and whispered Spode!
Walkinghome, I pulled out my cell phone, thinking how lucky Peggy had been not tobreak the chinaand saw that my ringer was on. Full blast. This time the luckwas mine, not to have jerked everyone awake with a tinny chorus of AintMisbehavin.
Incopyediting, we forget, we overlook, we nod off. Often we catch our errors (orsomeone else does) before its too late, and no doubt we are happily unaware ofmany errors that make it into print. Copyediting and proofreading the sixteenthedition of The Chicago Manual of Style, the team here caught typos anderrors in every round, and every time, we felt the relief that comes withescaping shame and embarrassment, along with the naive hope that now itsperfect.
Butinevitably a few goofs are lurking in the pages. (And knowing our readers, wewont remain unaware of them for long.)
Notlong ago I watched over a friends shoulder as she made corrections to adocument in MS Word, lumbering along in slow motion with her mouse, and afterabout two minutes of this, it was all I could do to keep from snarling Let medrive! and knocking her out of the chair.
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