The Writer's Life 1/27 - Shift

I'd like to thank mother nature for shifting the blizzard eastward. NYC got off rather easy. I was out at 6:30 AM and after noon and I'd guess there is less than a foot on the ground. On a scale of ten, the storm was a six. The people complaining about the city's over-reaction are silly. A simple shift westward and we would have been digging out for a month. Unfortunately, it looks like there won't be much melting for a while, as the forecast calls for temperatures below freezing and spotty sunshine. I was hoping the book shop would be back in business by Sunday, but now I'm not so sure. It will be a last minute decision. They usually do a great job clearing the front of the Chase bank, which gets sunshine almost the entire day, but parking becomes even more of a problem in such conditions. There's hardly any snow at my usual nook on E. 13th, but it only gets the sun a couple hours this time of year. The worst part of this day was no newspaper delivery. I usually spend an hour reading it in the morning, and another hour on the puzzle page in the afternoon, which makes up for the hour lost to the cold at the book shop.

With so much time to kill, I've read a lot of the second proof copy of my rock n roll epic, Rising Star. I've done 353 pages, 47 to go. So far I've spotted 17 errors, four of which were an unwarranted space between words. The only aspect I'm unhappy with is the text not filling every line on many pages. Since it doesn't appear that way in the file, I have no idea how to fix it. I'll leave it alone. Barring the unforeseen, I should be done tomorrow. Then I must decide whether to order another proof to make sure nothing changed but my corrections on the new upload. That would be the prudent course, I suppose. No sense paying for 100 copies and then finding gross errors.

My thanks to RewardTV, which sent me a ten dollar gift certificate for Amazon. I've built the account up to $85. I'm going to need copies of Killing soon, and I might use that option.

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