{"id":1466,"date":"2011-02-09T10:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2011-02-09T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:35:40","slug":"crowdsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m working on the novel revisions that the agent requested, but I need someone to help me read through it and identify words that might be so unusual as to be jarring to the reader. I don’t trust myself to do a good job—I changed “ululating” because that was specifically pointed out by the agent, but looking through the rest of the chapter I skimmed right over “atavistic.” Sam caught that one for me, but he’s having trouble carving out the time to read through the rest of the manuscript. Is there anyone reading this blog who would be willing to help me with this? It has to be a reader who would break stride at “ululating,” “atavistic” and similar words—that is, someone who reads like a normal person, rather than an English major. This is a deficiency<\/em> of mine and I need a careful reader to help me correct for it.<\/p>\n

Let’s see, what else has been going on over the past week. Robin had the second of the two playdates I mentioned: Elena is a very charming little girl, and the two of them played together quite sweetly. Amy sent me a message after they left: Fresh out of the babe’s mouth after asking if she had fun today: “Robin is very nice.” Awww.<\/em> Awww!<\/p>\n

Careful observation has shown that Davy is not crawling, but he can travel quite some distance by rolling<\/em>. He’s also sitting up now.<\/p>\n

The sleep issue: still a problem. Yesterday we ran out of coffee<\/em> and I was basically non-functional by 3:30 in the afternoon. I crawled into bed as soon as Sam got home at 5:45 and I slept through (except when I had to get up to nurse Davy) until the baby woke up a little after 5 am. I was still tired<\/em>. At least there’s coffee in the house now, because Sam went and got some last night. Yay Sam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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