[stylist] Donna and Bridget

[Donna Hill]

Eve,
It would be nice if we had a "thumbs Up" key on our computers.
Donna
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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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> Sanchez
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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. ;) 
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