Copyedits

Wait, what are you doing?

@Stygian Emperor: Manuscript for the Machine Man book I guess, since it is under the Machine Man category.
@Max: It is 2011 and you can't look up copyedit symbols on the internet?

Also you have beautiful eyes.

10! Keep going!

Needs more Grizzly Max

Wow, I wondered if they still did it by print and not electronic copy but thought: surely not - that would only increase typos, for which they'd need another editor, that'd be ridiculous. Apparently they are ridiculous.

Also, if that's for Machine Man, I'm HAPPY! I can't wait to read the full novel and watch the movie! (Aronofosky will surely do it justice!)

I've given up on shaving. Now I just trim the stubble back using a bare clipper set every 2 weeks, give or take. So much better.

And girlfriend approved, which makes it almost sane.

How much STET was scribbled on this manuscript? :P

I love the beard. Also, I'm not terribly surprised that they still manually edit manuscripts. The predominant thing I hear from my readers is: Reading online, or on a screen, sucks. They want paper. Especially those doing a more critical reading and/or editing for me.

I imagine it's faster to mark up a paper manuscript than try to make annotations in a word processor with a keyboard and mouse. I wonder if a tochscreen interface, al la iPad could be made to be more effortless.

Keep the beard. Take a picture of it, and ensure your new look gets used on the back cover of your next book. It gives you a more mature look, although some might find it less 'clean'.

As for those prints, I'm sure most people find it more interesting to work through a document in print than focus on a screen all day. Something to do with the way you're using a computer vs paper manuscript.

From adversity a Sweet Beard is born. Notice any correlation between beards and manuscripts? MANuscripts? That's right. The beard is quite literally inside your head. www.sweetbeard.com

I saw black swan, it was %&#@ weird. i hope Aronofsky makes Machine Man equally crazy.

Hey Max, I noticed that when I got the E-mail about this blog post, the images didnt seem to show up! It could be a proxy on the network I'm on, Open DNS or it might be my laptops internet Filter k9 web protection. It has a habit of doing that. Isnt it good you had a second child? Congrats, and I still wonder who violet is, DO ANOTHER NS MAX CHAT!

Ooh I'd forgotten you were turning this into a real novel! It made me want to dig out my Machine Man feed and start re-reading it again, but I've lost my original email long ago and can't seem to find a way to reactivate it :( Don't suppose anyone else might know how to reactivate the feed?

(sorry for double comment) Okay after noticing my comment didn't have the little nut symbol next to it, I went and tried logging out and back in under a slightly different username, and it seems to have fixed itself! Can't wait to read it all again, hehe.

Weep.

You think the pubs are bad?? I work deep in the bowels of corporate america in a place that makes that joint from "Company" look perfectly normal, and they go through paper as if their sole reason for existence is to consume toner cartridges & reams of paper.

Saw "Black Swan" and it was weird a-ight. Sexy, complex & well-acted, but that's all ballet. I know Machine Man has way more action. On the other hand, happened upon the first "Robocop" w/Peter Weller. The beginning where he's made into the robot, there's a sequence of scenes from his POV with technicians and doctors adjusting the his screen, testing him out, turning on & off Reminded me that pic is a LOT like MM ... And I mean that in a good way!

I woke and reached for my beard and it was not there... [i]Have I been Shaven?[/i]