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Tonymac

Sounds not fun.

mars 08 2016 11:04

AtreiyaN7

@Tony: It's not, but we just heard back from the author who - genius move here - apparently copied everything over from a PDF and plopped it into Word, which explains the incorrect hard returns and incorrect page breaks. However, moving things from the PDF doesn't explain the messed-up dialogue, the atrocious punctuation, the capitalization issues, the grammar issues, OR the author having all of her dialogue (for all 173 pages) incorrectly stuck together.
mars 08 2016 08:01

AtreiyaN7

She's going to try to fix things again (yeah, because that went so well last time). Whatever...as long as I get this thing back with properly separate dialogue and no incorrect page breaks/hard returns, then I don't care. I'm just totally going to avoid reading more of it than I already have. :P
mars 08 2016 08:02

AtreiyaN7

There are three things I hate in this world: stupid people, stupid people who can't follow my super-simple directions, and stupid people who cause me extra and completely unnecessary work because they're too stupid to follow my super-simple directions.
mars 06 2016 08:07

AtreiyaN7

I could be doing my main story quest in FF XIV right now, but no, thanks to this guy, between one-two hours of what should be relaxation time on a Sunday will now be sucked up formatting his book from scratch (and it's not like he's a good writer, so this will be even less enjoyable than it was the first time).
mars 06 2016 08:18

AtreiyaN7

And I just went over the ALLEGEDLY EDITED manuscript and found between what I now estimate as being 900-1,000 errors. Don't say you edited your work when you haven't fixed a single f---ing thing. If you had edited your work, you would've fixed ALL your mistakes or paid a professional to do it (since you're clearly too f---ing incompetent to do it yourself).
mars 06 2016 09:13

AtreiyaN7

I'm sure that all smart people know that you have EITHER footnotes or endnotes but not both (because it would be stupid and redundant to enter the same information twice). Great, author, if you'd wanted your endnotes to be footnotes, then perhaps you should have entered them into the footnote boxes where they belonged?
mars 04 2016 09:54

AtreiyaN7

Why the f--- is it that you're asking me this EIGHT PROOFS LATER???? This is the idiot whose edits were so bad that I spent three hours and thirty minutes trying to clean things up last time (after giving an estimate where I was hopeful that it would only take an hour and thirty minutes to complete work).
mars 04 2016 09:55

AtreiyaN7

And even after all the work I had to do, he later comes back and says he's amazed at how many mistakes got through - like how he accidentally changed Adde to Mary TWICE. Really? I can only catch so many errors (typos, grammar, AND punctuation errors), and frankly, I can't be expected to know the names of your bloody ancestors OR to care about your ancestors (all of whom I am currently cursing because I got stuck with this stupid family genealogy from hell).
mars 04 2016 09:58

SporkFu

Ahh bummer :( ...still, any time you can knock one off the list, it's a good thing.
févr. 27 2016 03:28

AtreiyaN7

@spork: That is true - hell day is almost over if I can make it through one more thing. And then I'm playing Triple Triad in FFXIV because I'm too exhausted to restart my umpteenth attempt at a succesfful Ironman run in XCOM 2 (one day, I WILL beat you Ironman mode! *shakes fist*).
févr. 27 2016 04:50

SporkFu

Shepard voicepack is all I'm gonna say, because nobody is better than Commander Shepard ;) She will see your Ironman quest through.
févr. 27 2016 04:57

AtreiyaN7

@puddi: Birthright, you silly! There's no way I'm starting out with Conquest (I'll play it later, but in any case, I'm basically always Team Obviously Good Guys).
févr. 26 2016 09:11

Puddi III

But Conquest has Arthur, Hero of Justice!
févr. 27 2016 01:36

AtreiyaN7

I have visited other castles and have seen Arthur. He's very...lol!
févr. 27 2016 03:03

AtreiyaN7

I had to reject Ph.D. #1's edits yesterday because he couldn't fill out the damned edit boxes properly. Apparently, HE thought that instead of following directions to enter the complete text in both boxes, he should enter instructions in one box and mangled corrections with MORE instructions in the other box). I get Ph.D. #2's edits today, and basically, she did the same damned thing.
févr. 23 2016 08:58

AtreiyaN7

Dear Idiot Ph.D.s everywhere, when the instructions say to enter the complete existing text and the complete correction, how about you DO THAT???? I DON'T WANT YOUR F---ING INSTRUCTIONS TO FIND <X> WORD AND CHANGE IT TO <Y> - JUST ENTER THE F---ING SENTENCES LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO!
févr. 23 2016 08:59

AtreiyaN7

AND IF YOU ENTER A F---ING STUPID ELLIPSIS IN YOUR CORRECTION THAT I KNOW ISN'T SUPPOSED TO GO IN THE BOOK, I WILL INSERT IT IF YOU FAIL TO FOLLOW THE F---ING DIRECTIONS.
févr. 23 2016 09:00

AtreiyaN7

How about no to that one? How about YOU stop asking me to do insane and stupid things? How about YOU never again use DejaVu Serif 24 pt for your stupid Prologue with the hyphenation turned off, resulting in hideous spacing issues that I can't fix because you A) chose a stupidly large font size and B) stupidly insisted on the hyphenation being turned off.
févr. 23 2016 01:23

AtreiyaN7

So, you decided to use Century Gothic for your novel - and THEN you decided that you wanted Sveva AS for the headers and for your chapter titles????????
févr. 19 2016 01:43

AtreiyaN7

All I have to say is that if you don't know what those fonts look like, you should google them to get an idea of why it's totally weird to put them together. I can live with Century Gothic for the main text (still weird for a fiction novel, FYI), but I think the Sveva AS was a terrible choice as a supplemental font for the chapter titles, etc.
févr. 19 2016 01:45

AtreiyaN7

Really, author? *headdesk* Who would actually say "up-chuck of laughter" (and "upchuck" is incorrectly hyphenated to boot!).
févr. 19 2016 12:02

SporkFu

I dunno, reading that caused what might be described as an upchuck of laughter heh. Seriously, as poetic descriptions go, that's bad.
févr. 19 2016 01:14

AtreiyaN7

Well, she wasn't trying to be poetic...she just can't write. :P
févr. 19 2016 01:42

SporkFu

Hehe, I saw that mod. What we need is a N7 armor mod.
févr. 14 2016 05:39

SporkFu

Actually, there is one already haha
févr. 14 2016 05:44

AtreiyaN7

There were only three edits last time, so I sucked it up and did them but issued my warning. The instructions were clear and simple. This time I get ELEVEN PAGES of complete crap (well, the last page was blank, so let's make that ten actual pages of fail and one page of blessed nothingness :P ).
févr. 12 2016 08:13

AtreiyaN7

Instead of entering the COMPLETE existing I.S. text, I get her stupid instructions mixed with individual words from the actual sentence that she wants changed. The only complete text she entered is the corrections. Really? I'm supposed to find your EXISTING sentences based on your corrections that TOTALLY DO NOT MATCH the existing text?
févr. 12 2016 08:18

AtreiyaN7

Grrrr - the AR just e-mailed me back AFTER I sent an irate e-mail to her and my boss about how bad this edit form is. I am now insisting that this moronic twit of an author make absolutely SURE that she uses the Word copy of the IP_V3 proof that I am providing for her. So help me God, I don't trust this moron to work on her old manuscript - plus, it would negate the two previous rounds of edits that I inserted.
févr. 12 2016 08:20

SporkFu

hehe, I didn't have time before work today, so will be taking on that last mission very soonish
févr. 12 2016 05:23

Fortlowe

You win this time ooman, but now we know your weaknesses! Poor grammar, ill conceived plotting, incompetent formatting, and bad punctuation! We will return!
févr. 12 2016 06:10

AtreiyaN7

@fort: Hahahaha!
févr. 12 2016 08:11

SporkFu

Yay :D ...How large was the download?

févr. 04 2016 09:22

SporkFu

Nevermind :) Figured it out
févr. 04 2016 10:07

AtreiyaN7

@spork: I'm sure that you're a cut above the authors I get stuck with - your sentences actually make sense and are readable, which I can't say about this loopy author and her loopy book about Miranda (and for anyone reading this, sorry, this isn't about Mass Effect Miranda :P ). There are SOME writers who self-publish that have talent or aren't horrible - it's just that this author is a bit more typical of what I've had to put up with lately.
févr. 02 2016 12:02

AtreiyaN7

Case in point: Andy Weir self-published The Martian initially, yet it was a really good novel with a great main character and later got picked up by Crown Publishing. It basically turned into a giant hit and was made into a movie, which was also a hit. Speaking of The Martian, I finally picked up the blu-ray since I'm a fan of the book, and the movie was surprisingly awesome as well! Thank you so much for not sucking when making the movie, Ridley Scott!
févr. 02 2016 12:07

SporkFu

First, thank you :) I try. Second, agreed on The Martian being a fantastic movie, and I did not know that about its origins, so thanks for that too.
févr. 02 2016 12:56