The truth is in the typos

[badatapologies]

I'm frantically working on scene transitions for the upcoming reading. This involves writing brief little synopses explaining who's who and what's happening in the story before the scenes you'll see at the reading.

In explaining my *ahem* quasi-slightly-autobiographical main character's life as a teenage boy, I meant to write:

"All his life Kit has pretended to be a boy, playing the part in order to survive."

Instead, I wrote:

"All his life Kit has pretended to be a boy, laying the part in order to survive."

Maybe I should have left it as it was. It's funnier. And more accurate.

Comments

augh, internal copy editor coming out....

[mikeyed.livejournal.com]

a comma after life; and don't we all know what "laying the part in order to survive" feels like?

Re: augh, internal copy editor coming out....

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

"a comma after life" isn't one of those weird cult theologies, is it?

I believe it was Shakespeare who once opined "All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely layers. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time lays many parts."

No, wait, that was Charlie Sheen. Nevermind.

Re: augh, internal copy editor coming out....

[mikeyed.livejournal.com]

it tends to be more of a semicolon than a comma.

ms globe trotter supreme

[albatrossity.livejournal.com]

I got your email & I'm so sorry for your loss. Let me know when you're back in town so I can more efficiently stalk you meet you in person and we can engage in awkward conversation and giggling.

Re: ms globe trotter supreme

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Does it count as stalking when it's reciprocal? See, I hate to admit this but I've been secretly reading your journal for years. I should be back up there...um, the 25th or in there somewhere? So we will be getting together sometime soon thereafter. This not seeing each other has gone on long enough.

Thanks. Bart was an amazing friend. I seriously cannot imagine life without her.

freudian slips

[carrieliebe.livejournal.com]

I'll attest to the truth of the original line.
Break a leg Wednesday! We are thinking of you and wising we were there.

Re: freudian slips

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

You're very funny. :-)

Thanks. I really wish you both were here as well, but somehow we'll make sure you're at the movie premiere (and/or on the set at some point) if fortune smiles on me and I can make this happen for real.