Husband has been on the laptop, surfing, I guess. I haven't been paying attention. He notices me busily typing on my birthday present, a Kindle with keyboard.
Husband: You like your birthday present?
Me: I love it!
Husband: So, you browsing Amazon or something? Don't spend too much, ha ha!
Me: No, I am working on my book.
Husband: (finally looking up from the laptop, where he's been looking at
motorcycle pictures on Faceborg . Don't know why--he'll be able to get a motorcycle the day after he buries me.) Wait. You uploaded your book onto the Kindle?
Me: Yeah! I love reading it there! It is so cool--
Husband: You are just reading it?
Me: Well, not really. I am editing it.
Husband: You are still editing it?
Me: This is more about sentence structure, and verb agreement--
Husband: Verb agreement?
Me: Well, two revisions ago, I played around with writing it in present tense, so I missed stuff--
Husband: In the last round of edits.
Me: No! In the last revision!
Husband: What is the difference between editing and revising?
Me: Hmmmm. (thinking hard about how to answer this) Revising is making changes to the body of the literature. Editing is making corrections.
Husband: Okaayyy.
Me: Oh! See, revising is like getting a boob job, and editing is more like just wearing a better bra.
Husband: ...I'm sorry, what?
Me: Okay, bad example. Revising my book involves me changing characters, or expanding scenes, or fleshing out backgrounds.
Husband: Uh-huh.
Me: And editing is fixing sentence structure. Or something.
Husband: So...
Me: I started a revision back in January that didn't work out-- the whole present tense thing. But I canned that and just went with making the story told from Elena's point of view, in first person.
Husband: And...
Me: I finished that in August, and now I am doing the last round of edits, so I can send it out again. I am hoping by November?
Husband: Okay.
Me: So, yeah. I am editing.
Husband: ...Do you want a boob job?
Thank you for the Kindle.
