You know how when someone has a computer meltdown and loses everything - people are always tempted to say, "Oh my God, didn't you back up your work?" It is not a nice thing to say. Well, there is a corollary when one -such as I - is in foot note hell. Please, do not say to the author, "WHAT? You didn't keep notes all along? You weren't doing citations as you wrote?"
No. OK? No, I didn't. This is my first book. I have been learning as I go along. When I blithely referred to a study, I evidently found it online, or printed it out and stuck it in a folder, God knows where, or researched it at a library and just took notes, or whatever.
Yesterday, I got a note from the editor's assistant, and they want all the notes by Monday. Monday. Let me just say there is a great deal of work to do in the next few days. And please don't tell me that I should have been doing this all along. I'm being punished enough.
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