My understanding of Proofreading books I have always been of the understanding that proofreading has at its root a culinary image. IE Proof that dough and Put the bread dough into the proofing oven. A proofing oven being of course that warm moist place where raw yeast dough is placed to make it rise to double or triple its original size, and acquiring all the little air bubbles inside that will make it fluffy and chewy and yummy delicious. Those bubbles are formed when the temperature inside the dough develops the perfect atmosphere in which the yeast grow and eat and get so relaxed that they release gasses that make the dough stretch and grow. In other words those gasses are a sign that the yeast is so mellow, it’s begun letting loose little yeast farts that make the bread what it is. In that sense proofreading would be akin gaining an understanding of the air bubbles in the dough before the loaf is cooked and ensuring they match up with the style and type of bread desired. The other part of my understanding lies in the fact that proof of the very existence of life itself comes directly from food. Therefore when asked: Basil, prove that you actually exist. I can confidently reply: The proof is in the pudding. and mean it. Applying these deep phisolophical statements to the literary world one can string that conjecture along further by deducing the following. 1. Write the book, do the above steps, then eat it to verify it is good. (this can also be taken figuratively if youve got a weak constitution and simply read the book as a symbolic representation of eating. Also certain publishers paper used in their pages is very good with a bit of brie and a dash of tabasco.) 2. Just as properly risen dough takes many hours and sometimes several risings to reach the just right stage of goodly-tasterificiousness, so too sometimes the text just has to sit and get all bubbly inside then be slapped back down and proofed again until the bubbles are just the right size and all the yeast creatures are farting themselves to perfection. 3. Your story should be like your favourite pudding, tasty, smooth and good going down with a nice aftertaste that makes your burps seems like a second dessert. I like to think my stories are like chocolate/vanilla swirl with a bit of butterscotch around the edges…and maybe some pistachios, cuz…well you’ve got to have some nuts in there.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:40:46 +0000
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