I have just called an end to a very intense work day.

Remember when I said oh yay, there aren’t many queries in this copy-edited anthology manuscript? Well, there aren’t.

But there are a tonne of inconsistencies the copy-editor overlooked, or worse, created by changing some things but not others. Things were edited so that they no longer matched house style (this one mystifies me). Odd stylistic choices were made that read very awkwardly.

So I’ve spent the day handling the rest of the queries (four sent out to contributors because I can’t answer them), then going through the ms. looking for things the CE overlooked. I’ll have to go back tomorrow morning and go through the first half of the ms. to fix the things I started fixing halfway through the file today.

This doesn’t happen often, thank goodness. In fact, I’ve only caught one or two missed or incorrectly edited things per ms. in the past. This one, though, wow. I think the CE must have been having a very off day.

My back is now killing me and I need to go lie down on the floor to try to straighten it out.

Orchestra tonight. Today’s practise got shelved because of the amount of work I did. I should look at the Vaughn-Williams while lying on the floor so as not to get caught completely flat-footed at rehearsal.