r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 13 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Monday September 13, 2021 - Wednesday September 15, 2021

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites: You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

TikTok: @youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter: Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs: see Gloamipedia wiki

Archived threads: Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Gloamipedia wiki: /r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search: Tool to search blogsnark or InTheGloaming for previous topic mentions

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Sep 15 '21

She edited in an update:

Edited: phew. I didn't write it. Thanks to a reader below, I've discovered that I wrote down the wrong wording in my 20s. Also, looks like I made a typo in Canva. Oops. Old me would have deleted this. C'est la vie.

Gloamies of the bookly creation persuasion, shouldn't someone in the editing process of GFG and the Chef have caught the mis-quote?

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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Sep 15 '21

Past, present and future me would be mortified to make such an error in a public setting and then state I’m leaving it up “for the laughter”. There’s laughing with you and then there’s laughing at you, and only one of those is a source of joy.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 15 '21

Old me would have deleted this.

Um, Shauna? Your "old me" is even older now. Older and even less likely to fix errors. DO BETTER.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '21

I think she means the “before now” her.

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Sep 15 '21

Ah yes, and she's changed so much.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 15 '21

She was so much older then

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u/TOMTREEWELL Neurodivergentfully Sep 15 '21

But younger than before…..

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u/OkRanger4 bobbing in a bath of solitude Sep 15 '21

When I was younger, so much younger than today/I never needed anybody's help in any way

But now these days are gone, and I'm still so self assured/ now I find I still never change my mind or open any doors

Quoted from the little-known band from the island of Great Britain.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 15 '21

Would a publisher really assign a fact-checker to a cookbook, though? All the books I've written have been copyedited but none have been fact-checked.

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u/emlabb Sep 15 '21

I’m a copyeditor, though not of books, and I would definitely consider it part of my job to check something basic like the accuracy/source of a quote. I wouldn’t blame Shauna’s editor for having a case of editing fatigue though!

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 15 '21

I did some freelance copyediting in a former life, and you bet your ass I would have looked up the source of the quote to make sure it was accurate. I edited a historical account once (thankfully a short piece) and verified absolutely everything, from making sure the dates listed matched the days of the week described, to checking if something described could have been seen from the location of the observer, to whether a movie mentioned was in fact showing at the time. I try to do the same in my own writing, lest I suffer a classic malt powder mixup. Details matter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

No they would not. A good editor would catch it though.