Finally got my editing notes for my Orville story. Mostly it was a lot of little things: Apparently you 'pore' over something if you are reading it thoroughly but you 'pour' a liquid. This needs a hyphen, that's two words, that kind of stuff. Typed a real word, so spellcheck didn't see it but it's not the word you want. Stuff like that I never catch in a dozen re-reads of my own stuff but it really does stand out in other people's writing.
I did get one short and one long section of the story that I need to re-write, so I know what I'll be doing for the rest of the day and tomorrow too. Better to know, and to fix it, then to send out something that drags in the middle or gets confusing near the end!
Still working on ideas for the cover, let alone actually working on making it happen.
Historical notes: you might know that the "Golem of Prague" was a man-like thing created from clay (like Adam in Genesis) and given a sort of "life" with little pieces of paper that told it what to do. It defended the Jews in Prague ghetto from progroms.
You might not know that the man credited with creating the golem was an actual real life person: Judah Loew ben Bezalel, a scholar of both the Talmud and the Kabbala who lived from c. 1512 to 1609. He was one of the most influential Rabbis in Prague and when he moved to Poland he was elected "Chief Rabbi of Poland." He lectured the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II on Kabbala. It's this obvious depth of knowledge and understanding that led to the legend that he uncovered the secret of how God created Adam to use for his Golem.
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