Re: WIR off to beta readers

In article <11s2ghih71ldvd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Patricia C. Wrede
<pwrede6492@xxxxxxx> writes
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>"Julian Flood" <jf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:dprc0t$1ot$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> Having reached 88kish and run out of ooomph, I will do one big
>> revision on COAGG. I will then do all the things that Helen has said
>> she will do in marketing it.
>> <unhand>
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>We'll hold you to that.
>
>And I agree about the post.

Well, it was a summary of all the things I could remember you telling us
over the years. :-)

>The only thing I can think of to add, after
>about five minutes of cogitation, is the suggestion I sometimes make to real
>procrastinators, which is that after making their initial list of people to
>submit the ms. to, they print up a bunch of labels and cover letters
>(without dates) that can be used to make it faster and easier to get a
>bounced ms. out the door again, should that be necessary.

I forgot that bit!

>This does require
>that one have storage space for the labels (and more for the envelopes and
>cover letters, if one chooses to do them, too), and also that said storage
>space is easily accessible (it kind of defeats the purpose if you have to
>climb over three stacks of boxes in the attic, unstack another set of boxes,
>and root around in a third until you find them hiding under an old vase,
>some Christmas decorations, six doilies crocheted by your Aunt Hattie, and a
>mysterious kitchen gadget with a cracked handle that's too good to throw
>away but that you haven't fixed because you're not really sure what it's
>supposed to do anyway).
>
I just wanted to admire that paragraph again...

Helen
--
Helen, Gwynedd, Wales *** http://www.baradel.demon.co.uk

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