What is editing hell Alex ...?
This past Sat & Sun was a celebration of Romantic Knit corrections from my tech editor (actually the corrections come in the form of questions, much like Jeopardy) and I have to answer them in a timely manner. Here are the rules:
- I have to be nice.
- I have to look up any math weirdnesses (and there are WEIRD math discrepancies...) and fix (!) them
- I have to make decisions on verbiage that may or may not have been relatively unclear (like this sentence)
- I can't buzz in before the question is complete
And, at the same time, the lasers (galleys) for Men Who Knit came in on Thurs and HAD to be returned by 2:00 on Sat. It was fun times, let me tell you. Actually, the book looks extraordinary and I am absolutely THRILLED with the job Lark has done!
The way Romantic Hand Knits is configured the hardest patterns are in Chapter 1, then the medium hard ones, then the relatively easy ones. Not to knit - hard and easy to WRITE and EDIT! Several of the patterns in Chapter 1 were products of multiple knit attempts, and that always screws up the numbers because I'm inputting in a scattered state of miind.
But we got through all of it - hooray! Now I've started refining the non-pattern stuff (like all the bits in between the songs in a musical) The whole goya beanery has to be into my editors hot little hands by Friday (but she didn't specify what time...) and yesterday she dropped the bomb that the illustrations have to be worked up in illustrator. Afraid not. I used appleworks for the past book, I'll do it for this one - besides, the illustrations I turn in are just supposed to be a reference for THEIR illustrator to refine! Oy.
I also have two sweaters for Folk Style that I've been working on between the book edits, and that Emmy dress (for which the yarn arrived yesterday) needs to be whipped up. Whip, whip, whip! I also decided that I HATED the lace mitts I'd done for the book, so I reknit them (and now I hate THESE mitts, but only the color, which is easy to change...) and that was a few hours gone by.
I wish I were as fast as this spider. I remove her web every night, and the next day she's got a whole new one, just as big and just as full of moths and flies. Good eatin' at my house!
This morning I took a nice walk with the newly trimmed doggie while the kids slept. What a lovely day we'll have today - relatively cool, low-ish humidity - a perfect day to compile the pieces of a book. I hope the weather is as nice at the end of next week when we have the shoot for Romantic Knits. We're shooting out on Long Island, at Westbury Gardens (about 10 years ago I went to a dinner there - isn't that odd?) The kids are out of camp, so I'm not sure WHAT I'll do with them on those days. Gerry may be home one day and I may take them with me for a little visit to grandma's (she lives 10 miles from the shoot) on one of the days. Gerry could drive out and meet us after work and then we could all go out to dinner!
These are the models for the shoot - they're absolutely lovely! I can't wait to meet them in person and see all of my sweaters on them (not at the same time.) I don't have cable, but for two weeks NBC ran Project Runway in their Monday night lineup and it just took 2 shows for me to get hooked. 
I'm not ready to spring for cable yet, but I DID order the first season of the show from Netflix. Disc 1 arrived last week and my friend Athena came over and watched it with Hannah and me. (I ADORE that show! How can I get on it!???) It's so fascinating to see the interaction between the models and the designers (I think they're sort of pushihng the model stuff, though - I watch it for the CLOTHES and the DESIGNING ANGST!) I wonder if either of "my" models have been on the show...?
- I have to be nice.- I have to look up any math weirdnesses (and there are WEIRD math discrepancies...) and fix (!) them
- I have to make decisions on verbiage that may or may not have been relatively unclear (like this sentence)
- I can't buzz in before the question is complete
And, at the same time, the lasers (galleys) for Men Who Knit came in on Thurs and HAD to be returned by 2:00 on Sat. It was fun times, let me tell you. Actually, the book looks extraordinary and I am absolutely THRILLED with the job Lark has done!
The way Romantic Hand Knits is configured the hardest patterns are in Chapter 1, then the medium hard ones, then the relatively easy ones. Not to knit - hard and easy to WRITE and EDIT! Several of the patterns in Chapter 1 were products of multiple knit attempts, and that always screws up the numbers because I'm inputting in a scattered state of miind.
But we got through all of it - hooray! Now I've started refining the non-pattern stuff (like all the bits in between the songs in a musical) The whole goya beanery has to be into my editors hot little hands by Friday (but she didn't specify what time...) and yesterday she dropped the bomb that the illustrations have to be worked up in illustrator. Afraid not. I used appleworks for the past book, I'll do it for this one - besides, the illustrations I turn in are just supposed to be a reference for THEIR illustrator to refine! Oy.
I also have two sweaters for Folk Style that I've been working on between the book edits, and that Emmy dress (for which the yarn arrived yesterday) needs to be whipped up. Whip, whip, whip! I also decided that I HATED the lace mitts I'd done for the book, so I reknit them (and now I hate THESE mitts, but only the color, which is easy to change...) and that was a few hours gone by.
I wish I were as fast as this spider. I remove her web every night, and the next day she's got a whole new one, just as big and just as full of moths and flies. Good eatin' at my house!
This morning I took a nice walk with the newly trimmed doggie while the kids slept. What a lovely day we'll have today - relatively cool, low-ish humidity - a perfect day to compile the pieces of a book. I hope the weather is as nice at the end of next week when we have the shoot for Romantic Knits. We're shooting out on Long Island, at Westbury Gardens (about 10 years ago I went to a dinner there - isn't that odd?) The kids are out of camp, so I'm not sure WHAT I'll do with them on those days. Gerry may be home one day and I may take them with me for a little visit to grandma's (she lives 10 miles from the shoot) on one of the days. Gerry could drive out and meet us after work and then we could all go out to dinner!
These are the models for the shoot - they're absolutely lovely! I can't wait to meet them in person and see all of my sweaters on them (not at the same time.) I don't have cable, but for two weeks NBC ran Project Runway in their Monday night lineup and it just took 2 shows for me to get hooked. 
I'm not ready to spring for cable yet, but I DID order the first season of the show from Netflix. Disc 1 arrived last week and my friend Athena came over and watched it with Hannah and me. (I ADORE that show! How can I get on it!???) It's so fascinating to see the interaction between the models and the designers (I think they're sort of pushihng the model stuff, though - I watch it for the CLOTHES and the DESIGNING ANGST!) I wonder if either of "my" models have been on the show...?
posted by Annie at
Monday, August 07, 2006
11 Comments:
> The whole goya beanery has to be into my editors hot
>little hands by Friday (but she didn't specify what
>time...)
Deadlines are always midnight unless otherwise specified! :-)
Season 2 and 3 are much less about the models than season 1.
You might want to visit Blogging Project Runway:
http://bloggingprojectrunway.blogspot.com/
for all the minutiae (sp?) about this show you would ever want to know!
I didn't see Season One, but I understand that there was far more attention paid to the models then. Seasons Two and Three are more devoted to the designers and their dramas. I do wish they'd focus more on the process of design, but I guess an audience of 10 design-dork viewers (myself included) is not what NBC/Bravo desires.
you're so right - the models are divine perfection! can't wait to see how they look in your handknits.
anne marie in philly
I'm a PR junkie too! It's so amazing to me how they can create a constructed garment in such a short time. Every Wed night after the show I say to myself that I gotta sew more.
Annie - I bet you could get on the show if you really tried...(If you would want to put yourself through that...) I've never actually seen it - too afraid to hooked on yet another TV show. I have a number of friends that are heavily addicted though.
If you can export the file as a pdf or an eps, then the illustrator can use your file as a template. If not - if it's another file format - he can probably open it in photoshop and place it in illustrator as a bottom layer and draw over the top of it. Worst-case scenario, he opens them, screenshots them, and puts them into AI himself. (Or herself.)
All that to say, do NOT stress about doing the illustrations in Appleworks. You will be FINE. But you know that don't you?! :)
You absolutely should try out for the next season. I'm completely addicted and have even gotten my husband to watch with me. He says it's just an interesting sociological study, but I catch him saying things like, "that skirt is making that tiny model's ass look fat" so he's totally picking up on the fashion.
Just so you know--we are waiting with baited breath for romantic hand knits. The designs look inspiring! Now...take your time editing...but don't take toooo much time... ;-)
Looking forward to Romantic Knits. How was the photo shoot?
I totally feel your pain with the editing thing! I use to write those big, scary computer books you see at the store. One time I was a contributing writer to another author's book. This guy raised the term 'anal retentive' to a whole new level. After listening to him go on and on and on during a conference call with our editor about how a section should be worded, I lost it. I said, "ItŐs a freakin' computer book, not a piece of literary art. This book will be dumpster food in about 9 months when the new version of the software comes out. Get over yourself and move on!!!"
Surprisingly, he didn't take this criticism well. After the conference call, my editor called me back and said that even though she totally agreed with everything I said and that the author really needed to hear it, I needed to be more tactful in the future!
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