On editing nightmares and seeing Pirates

Editing has eaten my brain. I mean, it's great that we get to send The North Wind off to a couple of editors and an agent, but OMG, the editing! The fifteen million Japanese words that must be italicized (or, for the purpose of proper submission formatting, underlined), the fifteen billion little skipped words, typos, occassional comma errors, etc, etc. Which doesn't include any of the "Hmm..I don't like this sentence/paragraph/scene - I think I'll just rewrite it!" moments.

Last night, I had this dream where we were forced to live in a hotel room without internet access until we finished editing the thing. Gee, think my subconscious is trying to tell me something? In the same dream, there were other people in our 'group' at this hotel, some of them writers, some of them other artists - and two different small groups of these very specific people in my head got together and acted out the first chapter of the book for us, with both presentations ending up entirely different from one another. It was very, very strange! Although when I woke up, I felt some mild disappointment that it was only a dream because both of the skits were pretty damn cool.

Saw Pirates yesterday. I promise a longer, more spoilery post later, but for now ( the quickshot review )

ETA: Spoilers about the after-credits-scene in the comments.