[stylist] Donna and Bridget

[Eve Sanchez]

Where is the damn LIKE button on here?     hahaha   Thanks  Donna

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Donna Hill <penatwork at epix.net> wrote:

> Eve,
> You're right about us being too close to our work to pick things up.
> Someday, I'm going to write a humorous piece about the stupid oversights I
> made in editing my book; even after dozens of re-reads, the ridiculousness
> of some of the things I (and a half-dozen readers) missed is startling. Of
> course, by the time I get to it, I'll probably have found even more in the
> published version. Yikes!
>
> BTW, I liked the references to thievery in Raven. To me, the word conotes
> something of the magic, which I think would have been tamped down a bit
> with
> concrete explainations. She was known for her thievery; that says something
> to me. She didn't just take a pack of gum once a long time ago, and the
> word
> "thievery" as opposed to "thief," which are both nouns, speaks to a
> technique and pizzazz. I'm not a student of this, so I can't speak to it
> being that, but that's how I took it.
> Donna
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> Again, I want to thank you for reading Raven. It is a very special piece to
> me and will be the first in the collection. I took your suggestions and
> reread to see why I had done what I did or if the issues were oversights. I
> made the needed corrections as well. The word upon, being repeated like
> that
> especially, was unnerving. I do not know why I had never noticed it before.
> There was no purpose in it. It just shows why it is so important for us all
> to share our work. We are too close to the pieces and so it is too easy to
> miss obvious problems. I think that when I have the collection complete,
> perhaps rather than just list references to the old myths, I could write
> something up explaining some of them and their origins.
> Hopefully that would help in clearing up the confusion with some of the
> actions and whatever that are barely mentioned or referred to. ;) Eve
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