You can tell when ...

[kinzel]

you can tell when we've got a book going into that last stretch of revision...

because the floors become covered in typescript pages with red ink, typescript pages with blue ink, pages in neat piles, piled pages looking as random as downed autumn oak leaves...

that's what my room looks like: a trail of old pink rug leading to the desk, with the rest of the floor coated in paper, some typescript down, some typed-side up.

I have a fresh carton of paper, too. Watch out world, Saltation is in the last stages of the race.

Comments

[drammar.livejournal.com]

This is, indeed, good news.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Are the cats a part of this process?

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Scrabble is annoyed, actually, because some of her favorite sunspots are covered...she does occupy the co-pilots chair despite that it would be a convenient auxiliary table,and she still frequently uses the Circular Logic perch .. .this becomes more awkward when Hexapuma wanders in, carefully skirting the papers -- the only place he can really go is up to the perch, which annoys Scrabble again ...

[mtz322.livejournal.com]

Still, well mannered cats. Mine have always looked on piles of paper as sledding ops. Wheeeeee.
This does not help filing.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Scrabble has been an office cat and a retail store cat; she was counter cat for The Animal House in Fairfield, Maine and knows better than to mess up stuff in piles. Mostly.