[Helpers] Text editing?

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

At 11:26 PM 15/03/2006, you wrote:

>Hi Mystress!
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>I have been lurking around the list for like a month or something now, and 
>I haven t said anything yet. I was kinda waiting because I wasn t sure if 
>you wanted to deal with the text editing yet for the lessons themselves.

   yup I am dealing.. attempting to deal! LOL!!

>With all the other rearranging that you are doing (which I barely 
>understand at all), I thought maybe it would be too much to throw that 
>into the mix as well right now. J

   I'm very grateful to Goddess for the team we have here!  Tasks have been 
neatly divided up and there is progress!

   Sachiko is handling web design, flash & FTP
   Gustaf will be and is handling audio and video.
   Sandra C is taking care of collecting the experiences links.
   Sandra D is/was working on updating links, and Hillary helping.
   Ted was working on the new site FAQ... not sure where he got to... 
probably waiting for me to give feedback.
   Richard is... well, helping with a few things!
   Percyval is supporting, because he was so involved with the original 
creation he probably knows the course better than I do!


    That pretty much leaves editing the lessons and creating homework 
assignments, which must be mine to do... but hell, yeah I need an editor.
   I'm pretty happy with the first 6 lessons I am done editing, but I 
noticed tendencies I need an editor to watch for.

    Some lessons are very ADD! I jump from topic to topic like a mountain 
goat fleeing a cougar. With one essay, I rearranged it completely by making 
a second, blank word page and selecting paragraphs and pasting them in one 
by one, in a completely different order to have it flow and make sense.

  Other essays, like roleplay & responsibility were scrapped and completely 
rewritten.

   I think one lesson, "7 years" never was written, I said all I had to say 
in the video... that happened a few times.  I'm going to write an essay on 
self healing for it.
   I suspect there are essays that were abandoned, rather than finished...
   I keep finding stupid email shorthand that I thought I had deleted.. 
like spelling though as tho.
   Some essays were never spellchecked!! egad.  (you need a Canadian 
spellchecker!!)

    I've gotten a lot tougher on myself with regards to the quality of my 
writing, since the course was created... I prefer it more polished and 
correct!

    But, dusting the stupid errors is wearing me out. I need to focus on 
the content... specifically, what content needs improving.

   If you can go through each lesson essay and paste it into word, clean it 
up, make comments about what can be cut-improved, redone, etc. with the red 
ink then email it back to me directly so I can be laser... if you like I 
will make the word docs and add comments, then send them to you for editing.

   I need an editor to clean things up and help me focus on where 
improvement is needed so I can be more efficient.

    The other thing is a little printable PDF reference booklet I have been 
working on with Rich. It will be a freebie on K-teacher, but I am also 
planning to give out copies to workshop attendants.  It will take the form 
of a little magazine printed horizontally on letter size paper, folded and 
stapled.

    What is different about it for me, is I like headings to fall on the 
top of the page whenever possible, and so I am writing to length... which 
is normal for almost every sort of writing except web pages and emails!!  I 
don't like seeing half or 2/3 of a page blank before the next heading, and 
I am not good enough at formatting in word to make things fit! I plan to 
add an essay about Kundalini, other than that it is mostly done but could 
be cleaner and prettier! Hmm, I may have sent you an older copy along with 
the soap & CD.

   It can wait a month. The course update is the first priority.


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>But, I m here and would be more than happy to help with any text editing 
>needs that you have for the lessons, or help organizing things into book 
>form or both& whatever! Let me know what I can do or where I can start. J

   there ya go! Let me know what you think.