Copy edits are done and I'm tired. My only goal for the day is to get to bed really early and catch up on some sleep. Not a lofty aim, but a necessary one.
I mentioned this before, but I always forget how much work copy edits are. They come and I have 2.5 weeks and I think, wow, I won't need all that time. I'll get them done early and get back to the WIP. Then in the first few days, I realize that mailing time comes off the 2.5 weeks, but that's still 2 weeks. I still should be able to get them done early and 2 pages of copy editor (CE) queries aren't that much.
I start with an initial read through, making the easy/quick changes that the CE has mentioned. That took care of about half the queries, which is good, but I start to get an inkling that I'm not going to get the manuscript turned around in a week, especially when the one day I think it will take expands to three days.
Next, I needed to add the changes I'd made to the story after I'd turned it in. Nothing impacted the plot or the structure, but there was some tightening up, some changes of phrasing. I expected to have this done in one day, too. Again, I was wrong. I think it ended up taking 2 days, but only because there was a big stretch without many of these little adjustments.
The next run through was to hit the harder copy editor queries. By this point, I've got five days left before the copy edits need to be sent out. So much for early, right? This ends up taking 2 full weekend days, leaving me with only 3 days for a final polishing read through. I used all of those days. I swear, I don't know why I can't not use a few words/phrases every sentence. Okay, slight exaggeration, but wouldn't it be nice if the word processing software would throw a window up that says, You've used the word "still" fifty times, are you sure you want to use it again? Then I would realize what I was doing and cut the word. I have a few of those kinds of words and I spent a lot of time crossing them out. Sigh.
I finished last night, the night before it needed to go to Fed Ex, around 7:30 or so. I had to write a dedication/acknowledgements page, too. Okay, I didn't have to, but I wanted to. That's hard for me.
Oh! And all along with the copy edits, I'm sharpening and resharpening my colored pencil because the point would get too blunt too quickly and I needed a sharp point so that the changes I wrote in were clear. On previous books, I'd searched for colored mechanical pencil lead, but only came up with red, which I'm not allowed to use because that's what the CE uses. Well, Wednesday I only did a search for colored pencils on Amazon--not lead--and discovered there's a collection of colored lead mechanical pencils with built-in sharpeners. Argh! If only I'd found them 2 weeks ago! I ordered them, but watch, my publisher will change to electronic copy edits for my next book and I'll never use them. That wouldn't surprise me at all.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Heat Is On
It's home stretch time for copy edits. I need to be finished with them by tomorrow evening so I can get them packaged up and ready to Fed Ex back to NYC on Thursday during my lunch hour. I'm on the final read through of the story now, making minor changes for smoothness or to get rid of duplicate words. These are really hard for me because they read so naturally and sometimes there is no synonym that conveys the right tone the same way the word that's duplicated does.
Take settle for example. The bad guy wasn't going to settle for this existence. Okay, find a word that means the same thing and shows his determination and resolve. I couldn't and I ditzed around with both sentences for awhile trying to reword/rework them so that I wasn't using settle twice on the same page. I can't remember if I decided to leave it as it was or if I finally came up with some way to eliminate one of the usages. I went through a lot of pages and hit a fair number of things like this.
Of course, this leads me to wonder if the connotation I give to words is the same that most people associate with them. Do others attach the same implications/emotions to settle? I don't know. The other question that arises is do most people even notice something like this when they read? Do they care that I spent half an hour on a single word? Something to mull over, I guess.
Anyway, the hard work on the copy edits was done this weekend. I only have one copy editor query left to answer, but it's not a difficult one as far as changing the story goes. It is difficult for me, though. I can't make a decision. Do I put it back to the phrase I had? Do I leave in the word the copy editor replaced it with? Or do I rewrite it entirely to something different? I'm not sure yet. I guess I'll make the decision when I reach that point in my reread.
Time pressure continues along with copy edits. Email is backed up, comments are going unanswered on my blogs, I stayed up too late last night and overslept this morning and that puts me farther behind because all the email I take care of in the morning didn't get handled before I left for the Evil Day Job (EDJ).
Two more days, counting today.
Take settle for example. The bad guy wasn't going to settle for this existence. Okay, find a word that means the same thing and shows his determination and resolve. I couldn't and I ditzed around with both sentences for awhile trying to reword/rework them so that I wasn't using settle twice on the same page. I can't remember if I decided to leave it as it was or if I finally came up with some way to eliminate one of the usages. I went through a lot of pages and hit a fair number of things like this.
Of course, this leads me to wonder if the connotation I give to words is the same that most people associate with them. Do others attach the same implications/emotions to settle? I don't know. The other question that arises is do most people even notice something like this when they read? Do they care that I spent half an hour on a single word? Something to mull over, I guess.
Anyway, the hard work on the copy edits was done this weekend. I only have one copy editor query left to answer, but it's not a difficult one as far as changing the story goes. It is difficult for me, though. I can't make a decision. Do I put it back to the phrase I had? Do I leave in the word the copy editor replaced it with? Or do I rewrite it entirely to something different? I'm not sure yet. I guess I'll make the decision when I reach that point in my reread.
Time pressure continues along with copy edits. Email is backed up, comments are going unanswered on my blogs, I stayed up too late last night and overslept this morning and that puts me farther behind because all the email I take care of in the morning didn't get handled before I left for the Evil Day Job (EDJ).
Two more days, counting today.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Progess Is Slow
I don't know why, but I always forget how much work copy edits are. It's like I develop amnesia or something. When I receive them, it goes something like this. Wow, 2 weeks, I should be able to get these done in a week and mail them back early. So because there's so much time, I don't rush through my first read through where I handle the easy copy editor questions. At some point while I'm plowing my way through the manuscript, it begins to occur to me that it's taking longer than I thought.
It's okay, I reassure myself. The second pass will be faster. There's only a few changes I made in the electronic copy that I need to input. I should be able to get this done in one night. This is when it dawns on me that I've greatly underestimated how much time it will take. I only made it halfway through the story on this second pass.
Now it's day 2 of this pass. I suddenly realize that I don't have 8 more days like I thought, it's only 7 because I have to bundle the manuscript up to be mailed back at work the next day, which means I don't have that extra day to work on it like I thought I had. Panic begins to creep in as I measure how much I've accomplished versus how much I have left to accomplish. A clock begins ticking in my head.
This is where I was at yesterday. Luckily, day 2 on the changes I'd made to my document went faster than I anticipated and I even managed to get to bed early. That clock, though, is still running in my head and I'm trying to figure out how much time it's going to take to do everything I need to do.
So far there's been one big discrepancy that I've found. The first time Kel builds a fire, the fireplace has doors. The second time, there's a screen. I've fixed that.
On the CE To Do List still are:
Agent's suggestions
Reworking the first fight scene to add knives (I volunteered to do this for the cover)
The harder Copy Editor queries
Duplicate words
Final read through
It's okay, I reassure myself. The second pass will be faster. There's only a few changes I made in the electronic copy that I need to input. I should be able to get this done in one night. This is when it dawns on me that I've greatly underestimated how much time it will take. I only made it halfway through the story on this second pass.
Now it's day 2 of this pass. I suddenly realize that I don't have 8 more days like I thought, it's only 7 because I have to bundle the manuscript up to be mailed back at work the next day, which means I don't have that extra day to work on it like I thought I had. Panic begins to creep in as I measure how much I've accomplished versus how much I have left to accomplish. A clock begins ticking in my head.
This is where I was at yesterday. Luckily, day 2 on the changes I'd made to my document went faster than I anticipated and I even managed to get to bed early. That clock, though, is still running in my head and I'm trying to figure out how much time it's going to take to do everything I need to do.
So far there's been one big discrepancy that I've found. The first time Kel builds a fire, the fireplace has doors. The second time, there's a screen. I've fixed that.
On the CE To Do List still are:
Agent's suggestions
Reworking the first fight scene to add knives (I volunteered to do this for the cover)
The harder Copy Editor queries
Duplicate words
Final read through
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Copy Edits
Copy edits always seem to take me longer than I think they will. My plan for the weekend was to do an initial read through and handle the simple queries, but I didn't make it. I still have about a third of the book to get through. Part of it was that I participated in a plot group session and that took up a lot of time, but part of it is that it just takes longer to read through the manuscript than I think it will. Always.
Back when I wasn't writing and I read a lot, I could make it through a single title story in about 6-8 hours, depending on the author and the amount of dialogue she used. Or the amount of description. I always skim description because I hate reading it and I have my own pictures of the story in my head anyway. Somehow, I always think that my reading time for a novel written by someone else should equal the time it takes to do an initial read through of my own work. I always seem to forget that I'm going to stop and pick at my stuff.
One of my biggest problems is repeated words. I love it when the copy editor (CE) marks that stuff for me because no matter how carefully I watch out for it, I never seem to see them myself. I don't know why. Fortunately, the CE who went through In the Darkest Night did do this. The CE also pointed out my page where almost every sentence had the word had in it. Reading that made me cringe, especially because I didn't see it myself. How could I miss that? Zoinks!
Anyway, I will continue to do my initial read through tomorrow and hopefully finish up so I can start the second round. First pass is just general stuff, the easy things that are quick fixes. The other passes through copy edits are more intensive for me and I know those will take longer.
Back when I wasn't writing and I read a lot, I could make it through a single title story in about 6-8 hours, depending on the author and the amount of dialogue she used. Or the amount of description. I always skim description because I hate reading it and I have my own pictures of the story in my head anyway. Somehow, I always think that my reading time for a novel written by someone else should equal the time it takes to do an initial read through of my own work. I always seem to forget that I'm going to stop and pick at my stuff.
One of my biggest problems is repeated words. I love it when the copy editor (CE) marks that stuff for me because no matter how carefully I watch out for it, I never seem to see them myself. I don't know why. Fortunately, the CE who went through In the Darkest Night did do this. The CE also pointed out my page where almost every sentence had the word had in it. Reading that made me cringe, especially because I didn't see it myself. How could I miss that? Zoinks!
Anyway, I will continue to do my initial read through tomorrow and hopefully finish up so I can start the second round. First pass is just general stuff, the easy things that are quick fixes. The other passes through copy edits are more intensive for me and I know those will take longer.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Fall Chores
First off, I bundled up the copy edited manuscript last night for IN TWILIGHT'S SHADOW and I'll Fed Ex it today on lunch. I was done with it on Friday night, but I spent all weekend working outside and never had time to actually pack it up. I hate to spend my lunch hour running an errand--the coworker from hell is off and it's a shame to waste the quiet when I could be writing--but the temperatures are going to plummet on Wednesday and I don't want to run around in the cold. Yes, I know I live in Minnesota.
The second item on my report of the day is the flower update. My dad had removed the tiger lilies from the tree ring by the time I got home from the EDJ, but he was still digging up roots when I joined him. Neither one of us expected moving these particular flowers to be difficult; after all, he just transplanted them from his yard like in June, and at the time he moved them, none of them had much root. Both of us figured it would be the same thing and we'd just shift them and all would be well. We were wrong.
As it turned out, the tiger lilies had roots everywhere and that is no exaggeration. Literally every millimeter of ground was loaded with a rat's nest of root structure. For more than two hours my dad and I were digging up soil and pulling out more tiger lily roots. Just when we thought we had it all, we'd find more. At one point, my dad suggested just leaving them, but I was concerned that the new bulbs wouldn't have any room to grow with all that other stuff in there.
When I saw how invasive this particular type of lily was, I said to my dad, instead of bunching them together in the tree ring, I think we better take them out of here all together. If we don't, they're going to take over completely and push out my other flowers. So after a brief discussion, we decided to plant them in the space next to my evergreens. Let them fight it out with the trees for root space. :-)
So the list of things that has to be done this afternoon is daunting. Not only do we have to plant the new bulbs, but we have to plant the tiger lily bulbs, put down weedkiller over both gardens, mulch the new garden and half the tree ring. We also need to mulch the tree peony and cover it for the winter. The other half of the tree ring has to wait until after the plants turn brown, then I'll have to cut them down and mulch them as well. Also on the list is yanking the flowers out of the deck and porch planters and getting rid of that dirt. We did have a hard freeze so most of the flowers are dead.
I can't believe how much work needs to be done before winter!
On the bright side, Mercury is almost out of retrograde. Yea!
The second item on my report of the day is the flower update. My dad had removed the tiger lilies from the tree ring by the time I got home from the EDJ, but he was still digging up roots when I joined him. Neither one of us expected moving these particular flowers to be difficult; after all, he just transplanted them from his yard like in June, and at the time he moved them, none of them had much root. Both of us figured it would be the same thing and we'd just shift them and all would be well. We were wrong.
As it turned out, the tiger lilies had roots everywhere and that is no exaggeration. Literally every millimeter of ground was loaded with a rat's nest of root structure. For more than two hours my dad and I were digging up soil and pulling out more tiger lily roots. Just when we thought we had it all, we'd find more. At one point, my dad suggested just leaving them, but I was concerned that the new bulbs wouldn't have any room to grow with all that other stuff in there.
When I saw how invasive this particular type of lily was, I said to my dad, instead of bunching them together in the tree ring, I think we better take them out of here all together. If we don't, they're going to take over completely and push out my other flowers. So after a brief discussion, we decided to plant them in the space next to my evergreens. Let them fight it out with the trees for root space. :-)
So the list of things that has to be done this afternoon is daunting. Not only do we have to plant the new bulbs, but we have to plant the tiger lily bulbs, put down weedkiller over both gardens, mulch the new garden and half the tree ring. We also need to mulch the tree peony and cover it for the winter. The other half of the tree ring has to wait until after the plants turn brown, then I'll have to cut them down and mulch them as well. Also on the list is yanking the flowers out of the deck and porch planters and getting rid of that dirt. We did have a hard freeze so most of the flowers are dead.
I can't believe how much work needs to be done before winter!
On the bright side, Mercury is almost out of retrograde. Yea!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Retrograde Woes Continue
Yesterday morning my connectivity woes continued. I was able to access my high speed on my desktop, but when I went to my laptop, nothing. It offered me the choice of 4 wireless networks--none of which were mine. Some of those networks were so far away, there was hardly any green on the status bars, but it couldn't pick up the router 30 feet away.
Since I want all my email on my laptop computer, I had to use dial up to get it. Big sigh. At least I was able to do everything else on the desktop, but it was so frustrating. I rebooted the desktop before I left for work and hoped it would all work when I got home--just like it did on Monday--and sure enough, it did. This morning--so far so good.
It has to be that damn Mercury being in retrograde. I've never had this problem before, but shortly after this Mercury thing starts, it happens two days in a row? Normally, I don't have big retrograde issues and never anything with the computer--until now.
I finished copy edits. I think. The CE suggested I maybe add a thought to the end of the book. I tried that, but the problem is that I run on and don't know when to quit, and once I start explaining, I can go on forever. So I decided I better stick with what I have, although I'll keep it in mind and see if an epiphany doesn't strike before I have to mail it back. Anyway, I'm going to read through one more time and try to watch for repeated words. I have a little problem with that and I honestly don't see them no matter how closely I watch.
Monday I received my first magazine from the garden club I joined and one of the ads was for a red amaryllis. It looked so cool, much better than a poinsettia. Maybe that's because my mom always had at least one every year and so I think those plants are common and boring. But a red amaryllis.... Sigh. I'm so tempted, but it's a sissy flower and I'd have to keep it inside.
Since I want all my email on my laptop computer, I had to use dial up to get it. Big sigh. At least I was able to do everything else on the desktop, but it was so frustrating. I rebooted the desktop before I left for work and hoped it would all work when I got home--just like it did on Monday--and sure enough, it did. This morning--so far so good.
It has to be that damn Mercury being in retrograde. I've never had this problem before, but shortly after this Mercury thing starts, it happens two days in a row? Normally, I don't have big retrograde issues and never anything with the computer--until now.
I finished copy edits. I think. The CE suggested I maybe add a thought to the end of the book. I tried that, but the problem is that I run on and don't know when to quit, and once I start explaining, I can go on forever. So I decided I better stick with what I have, although I'll keep it in mind and see if an epiphany doesn't strike before I have to mail it back. Anyway, I'm going to read through one more time and try to watch for repeated words. I have a little problem with that and I honestly don't see them no matter how closely I watch.
Monday I received my first magazine from the garden club I joined and one of the ads was for a red amaryllis. It looked so cool, much better than a poinsettia. Maybe that's because my mom always had at least one every year and so I think those plants are common and boring. But a red amaryllis.... Sigh. I'm so tempted, but it's a sissy flower and I'd have to keep it inside.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Place Your Bets!
Sunday night the Red Sox won the American League pennant. That means that from the time the playoffs started (and I'm counting Colorado's one game play off with San Diego to see who would get the wild card slot) every team I've wanted to win has won--with the exception of my beloved Chicago Cubs. I don't know why they were immune from my mojo, but if we exclude them, I'm absolutely 100% dead on. :-)
Those of you who want to fly off to Vegas and bet on the World Series are undoubtedly dying to know who I'm rooting for next. I think it's Colorado. I'm like 95% sure. The only uncertainty comes from the fact that I cheer on the Sox because they're the Yankees arch enemy and I hate the damn Yankees. (Sorry Yankee fans.) So I've rooted for Boston for a few years and there's a slight possibility that I might not be able to root against them. I don't think it's going to happen, but you never know.
In writing news, I'm nearly finished with my copy edits. I just have two more questions to think about--both in the epilogue--then I'll do one more read through, and send it back. I've really had great copy edits on my books, and I've particularly enjoyed this most recent set because there have been scattered comments throughout--all nice stuff. It's great to get that kind of feedback in addition to having my boo boos caught.
My cable internet was down on Monday morning! Talk about your Mercury retrograde issue. I recycled the router and the desktop computer like three times a piece, but I came to the conclusion it had to be cable even though I had television. All systems were go on the router with the exception of the net. I had to plug in the phone and--GASP--use dial up again! OMG, am I spoiled! It was painfully slow. Luckily, everything was working when I got home yesterday afternoon, but man, it makes me wonder how I managed with dial up for all those years.
Those of you who want to fly off to Vegas and bet on the World Series are undoubtedly dying to know who I'm rooting for next. I think it's Colorado. I'm like 95% sure. The only uncertainty comes from the fact that I cheer on the Sox because they're the Yankees arch enemy and I hate the damn Yankees. (Sorry Yankee fans.) So I've rooted for Boston for a few years and there's a slight possibility that I might not be able to root against them. I don't think it's going to happen, but you never know.
In writing news, I'm nearly finished with my copy edits. I just have two more questions to think about--both in the epilogue--then I'll do one more read through, and send it back. I've really had great copy edits on my books, and I've particularly enjoyed this most recent set because there have been scattered comments throughout--all nice stuff. It's great to get that kind of feedback in addition to having my boo boos caught.
My cable internet was down on Monday morning! Talk about your Mercury retrograde issue. I recycled the router and the desktop computer like three times a piece, but I came to the conclusion it had to be cable even though I had television. All systems were go on the router with the exception of the net. I had to plug in the phone and--GASP--use dial up again! OMG, am I spoiled! It was painfully slow. Luckily, everything was working when I got home yesterday afternoon, but man, it makes me wonder how I managed with dial up for all those years.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Back To Serious Work
When I got home from work yesterday, I spotted the package on my doorstep. It wasn't the last order of bulbs I have coming. Nope, it was copy edits. I'm back to work again with a deadline. Sigh. I started writing my Polynesian couple's story during lunch today and now I have to stop!
Anyway, I'm through the first 128 pages and it's been pretty light so far, but page 129 has a query I'm not sure how to fix. So I'll mull for a while and then go back and get it later. The copy editor gave me a smiley on one of the pages and a compliment. I really like that. :-)
In other news, my garden wall is done. Yea! It finally stopped raining long enough on Wednesday for the guy to finish it. He did another beautiful job.
Here's the new garden from a distance. You can see how close it is to the tree ring.
This is just the new garden.
And finally, here's a shot of both the tree ring and the new garden from another angle. Because heaven knows if one shot is good, more is better. :-)
While I was out checking the new addition, I also took a look at the plants in the tree ring. Believe it or not, my toad lilies have buds on them! I know, it's October and they didn't bloom all summer. We have another week of warm weather according to the TV guys, so let's hope it's enough time for the flowers to appear.
Toad lily with flower buds
It started raining last night and it's supposed to pour all day today. Once again, I need to worry about the freeway being flooded. And to think, in July we were all concerned about a drought. Now someone better dust the plans off for the ark.
Anyway, I'm through the first 128 pages and it's been pretty light so far, but page 129 has a query I'm not sure how to fix. So I'll mull for a while and then go back and get it later. The copy editor gave me a smiley on one of the pages and a compliment. I really like that. :-)
In other news, my garden wall is done. Yea! It finally stopped raining long enough on Wednesday for the guy to finish it. He did another beautiful job.
Here's the new garden from a distance. You can see how close it is to the tree ring.
This is just the new garden.
And finally, here's a shot of both the tree ring and the new garden from another angle. Because heaven knows if one shot is good, more is better. :-)
While I was out checking the new addition, I also took a look at the plants in the tree ring. Believe it or not, my toad lilies have buds on them! I know, it's October and they didn't bloom all summer. We have another week of warm weather according to the TV guys, so let's hope it's enough time for the flowers to appear.
Toad lily with flower buds
It started raining last night and it's supposed to pour all day today. Once again, I need to worry about the freeway being flooded. And to think, in July we were all concerned about a drought. Now someone better dust the plans off for the ark.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Grammar Gremlins
I read through my copy edits this weekend and had affect/effect marked a couple of times in the manuscript. I'm not surprised. No matter how hard my teachers drilled me, I never got it. Not in high school, not in college and not now. I know that I don't get it and I even copied a piece out of a book and posted it on the wall so that I'd be able to reference it easily. Unfortunately, I get more confused after reading it, so I've decided to just go with what feels right. Either that or I rewrite the sentence so I don't have to use that word. :-)
I didn't see this marked, but another one I have a huge problem with is lie/lay/laid/lain and any derivation of this word. This is one of those cases where I'm always wrong. Whichever option I choose, the other one is right. You'd think I could just go with the opposite then and that would take care of it, but the few times I've tried this, I was actually right originally and switching made me wrong. Again, I try to rewrite to avoid this series of words.
As I went through the manuscript, I learned that a while isn't always two words. I thought it was. This will now become another rule I don't understand, right there with: into/in to, anymore/any more and onto/on to. What I do in these instances is pick one way to write the word(s) and do it throughout. :-) Consistency is key, right?
Then there's my comma usage. Blame this one on journalism school. We had it drilled into (one word) our heads to never, ever put a comma before the word and unless it's part of a clause, that it's completely unnecessary. This I learned well and to this day it bugs the hell out of me to see a comma in this position. So of course, at both my publishers they stick commas before the word and and I have to grit my teeth and say, yeah, okay, most people didn't go to J School. But the overabundance of commas drives me insane. Of course, I also have a habit of leaving out other commas or putting them in where they don't belong and this has nothing to do with college. I've had several comments over the years about my "interesting" use of this punctuation mark.
What can I say? I try. My teachers tried. I remember week after week of diagramming sentences and being drilled in grammar. I think I need a refresher course or something. Of course, it's unlikely that this would help with affect/effect or lie/lay/laid/lain, etc, but there's always hope.
I didn't see this marked, but another one I have a huge problem with is lie/lay/laid/lain and any derivation of this word. This is one of those cases where I'm always wrong. Whichever option I choose, the other one is right. You'd think I could just go with the opposite then and that would take care of it, but the few times I've tried this, I was actually right originally and switching made me wrong. Again, I try to rewrite to avoid this series of words.
As I went through the manuscript, I learned that a while isn't always two words. I thought it was. This will now become another rule I don't understand, right there with: into/in to, anymore/any more and onto/on to. What I do in these instances is pick one way to write the word(s) and do it throughout. :-) Consistency is key, right?
Then there's my comma usage. Blame this one on journalism school. We had it drilled into (one word) our heads to never, ever put a comma before the word and unless it's part of a clause, that it's completely unnecessary. This I learned well and to this day it bugs the hell out of me to see a comma in this position. So of course, at both my publishers they stick commas before the word and and I have to grit my teeth and say, yeah, okay, most people didn't go to J School. But the overabundance of commas drives me insane. Of course, I also have a habit of leaving out other commas or putting them in where they don't belong and this has nothing to do with college. I've had several comments over the years about my "interesting" use of this punctuation mark.
What can I say? I try. My teachers tried. I remember week after week of diagramming sentences and being drilled in grammar. I think I need a refresher course or something. Of course, it's unlikely that this would help with affect/effect or lie/lay/laid/lain, etc, but there's always hope.
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