Before and After
Posted 11 June 2010 in Random Photographs by Catriona
Before deadline:
After deadline:
Yes, the Mockingbird manuscript is in. And it’s in, I might add, without the following embarrassing typos, which I spotted while editing:
- that the break to his arm left Jem’s “thumb parallel to his thing.” True (since it was also parallel to his thigh) but perhaps a little indelicate.
- that lawyers’ analyses of the novel have to be “sued carefully.” Curse you, inappropriately apt verb.
- that the lives of African Americans in the Deep South were marked by “sheet terror.” That, I’ll go out on a limb to say, may be the most tasteless typo ever committed to a document.