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What Would You Save If….

drupagliassotti @ March 3, 2010 # One Comment

When a colleague told me our building was on fire this afternoon, I grabbed my purse, laptop, library book, and the page proofs for Boys’ Love Manga, so that I wouldn’t lose any of my penciled-in edits if the building burned down! Turned out it was a burning lightbulb’s smoke being sucked into the ventilation [...]

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Editing On Paper

drupagliassotti @ January 25, 2010 # No Comment Yet

I can revise a novel over and over and over again on-screen, and it never makes any difference. When I finally print it out, around revision two or three, and go over it on paper, I invariably see dozens of places on each page where I can tighten prose, fix dialog, and clarify points. I’m [...]

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Editing, Writing & Anime Expo

drupagliassotti @ June 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Today was my “could you try to get your final edit back to me by the end of the month?” deadline for our book on boys’ love manga, Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys, and sure enough I have most of the manuscripts back now. I’ve been glancing through them for formatting and then passing them [...]

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Grammar Guardian: Turnaround is a Noun

drupagliassotti @ February 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Turnaround is a noun or an adjective, not a verb, so its use in the phrase “plan to turnaround their troubled companies” is incorrect. Turn around, with a space between the words, is correct when seeking to use the verb form of the phrase.  The sentence should read, “plan to turn around their troubled companies….” [...]

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Update: Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys (Yaoi)

drupagliassotti @ January 28, 2009 # 3 Comments

Due to some delays in receiving and reading through the manuscripts, my coauthors and I have requested and received a deadline extension for Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys: Japanese Boys’ Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World. Our original deadline to return the completed and edited manuscript back to the publisher was March — [...]

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Grammar Guardian: Consistency

drupagliassotti @ January 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

“Your writing should be clear, concise, and consistent,” I tell the students in my journalism course. “By ‘consistent,’” I joke, “I mean that if you make a mistake, make sure you make it the same way throughout your article.” Today’s example from CNN.com is a well-written lead that fails the consistency test. If this were [...]

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Grammar Guardian: Mariner of the Seas

drupagliassotti @ December 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Today I heard an ad for Royal Caribbean’s ship Mariner of the Seas that inspired me to make this post. Get it? Mariner of the Seas.  Of the Seas. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary: Marine (adj.) c.1420, from M.Fr. marin (fem. marine), from O.Fr. marin, from L. marinus (fem. marina) “of the sea,” from [...]

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Grammar Guardian: Beg the Question

drupagliassotti @ December 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet

CNN’s usage of “begging the question” in this paragraph is incorrect. “Begging the question” is not a fancy way of saying “raising the question.” To beg the question is to put forward an argument that uses faulty premises and/or circular reasoning as “support.” For example, let’s take this argument: Because about two-thirds of the U.S. [...]

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Grammar Guardian: Quotation Marks

drupagliassotti @ November 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Quotation marks are primarily used to indicate that what lies between them are somebody’s exact words, either spoken or written — which is why we use the marks to indicate spoken dialog in journalism or fiction, or to indicate precisely reproduced written words in a scholarly paper. The Associated Press style guide, used by U.S. [...]

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Grammar Guardian: Lack of Editing at Time Magazine

drupagliassotti @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

“The winner’s immediate priority should be to try and unify the nation. The signals the president-elect sends in the first few days could go a long way toward reminding Americans, no mater how they may have voted, that we’re all apart of something larger than ourselves.” (Time Magazine) I ran across these two sentences on [...]

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