Apex Book Company

I’m in the midst of proofing Write-a-thon participant pages (http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/2009), so I thought I’d share a bit of that process with the world.

Step One: Caffeinate.
This is the most important step of all; I don’t recommend proofreading your own name without it…at least not if you’re me.

Step Two: Word Work
Select a participant, and begin carefully going over their submitted text, handily uploaded to a web page by one of the hardworking CW volunteers

Step Three: Interruption
Remove one moderately-sized Siamese cat from keyboard

Step Four: Return to Word Work
Continue editing for consistency of style across all participant pages

Step Five: Guilt
Extract same moderately-sized Siamese cat from the space between self and laptop, despite two blue-blue eyes now level with mine, asking, “Don’t you love me anymore?”

Step Six: Return to Word Work
Check website links on pages to make sure they go to actual websites

Step Seven: Snubbing
Look around to find two Siamese and one half-Siamese backside pointed in my direction

Rinse and repeat.