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That’s funny – I’ve been using it for about the same length of time online.

A dash or a slash or some other thing just looked odd to me so I began using the cedilla. Plus, as you say, not many people do and I’m not one to conform so easily to the crowd. (Except, of course, when necessary.)

What’s even funnier – I even used the cedilla before my “online life” – I always signed my name with one when writing notes to friends and what-not in high school.

~ Annie

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I think that should be left up to the individual writer. I use both.

Re – the editing – I think it’s going to be pretty basic, just the odd typo etc.

Thanks for sharing, re. the cedilla – I used to wonder what that funny squiggly thing was called.

The easy answer is that we leave the editing up to the individual writers. But again, perhaps we are too far down this road already.

@Annie – You know, I started using a cedilla in front of my name almost right from the start of my Internet life (circa 1995). It occurred to me that there was no practical way to “sign” your name on the Internet or in emails. I wanted something that would be easy to include and easily recognizable — and I’ve used the cedilla ever since.

The interesting thing (in my mind) is that in all that time I’ve never met another person who did the same. Some use single dashes, but you’re the first I’ve ever come across that used a cedilla! (We should start a club…)

~Graham

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Guess we’ll need to outline the process; i.e., supply the writer with the proposed editing marks and let them say ya or nay? I am familiar with markups as I worked in publishing for 6 years and had to follow editor’s marks to make changes to book layouts.

Working as a proofreader, I prefer to print out the material first and mark it up from there. Then I can provide markups in pdf format for approval.

I agree that it would be best to see what submissions we get before choosing themes or categories.

We should also supply the edited versions in a common format? Not sure who is going to be putting all these submissions together, but I’m sure this will be more clear as we get going.

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@ Monika – That sounds like a great idea. I will change this thread to private today.

@ Rita – I’ve been looking at some of the other things that need doing. But if I make a list – it would be great if you could check it out to see what I’ve missed.

Re: Editing – I’m like you – I need to print out to edit well – which is probably why I make so many typos on this blog. But it sounds like Lillie works best on computer and there’s no harm in her doing so.

@ Bob – Thank you. I’d love to have you on board. And I know you’d write some inspirational stuff to include in the ebook. An amazing number of people want to emigrate and start a new life in Australia, as you already know. Will keep you in the loop.

@ Annie – that is a good point. I find blog threads a huge struggle to keep up with. I’ll email you all today and we’ll have a vote.

@ Rita – thanks for worrying about my traffic. But you don’t need to. I’ve received surprisingly little traffic to this post. I know my Alexa ranking might make it look that way – but rankings can be deceptive.

I’m going to write a few posts on traffic in the future but because you’re fairly new to all this blogging stuff, I’ll email you today and explain what made my stats improve. It’s something that you’ll easily be able to do.

@ Lillie – thank you. Editing on screen is fine if it is wht you’re most comfortable with.

@ Rita – Hey, do you realise it’s 5.24am here. I think I’m around 5 hours ahead of you. I went to bed early but I got woken up at around 1am, which is why I’m still around.

Of course I don’t mind you being in charge of editing. Everyone else seems to be in favour of you doing it and you’re a great organiser. So long as you don’t mind the hate mail when you tell someone they need a complete rewrite. But, hopefully you won’t need to do that.

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