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05 May 2010
Edits Away!
After finishing Awakening, I was a little intimidated by the thought of getting it edited in the next two months. After all, editing requires you to re-read the entire work and figure out what you've done right and what you've done wrong. I'm very scared of how much I did wrong on Awakening and scared of having to rewrite giant sections of the book without getting it done in time.
I'm 50 pages in on 116 pages and I must say that I'm not horrible. I don't know that I'm all that wonderful, but I've definitely written worse (Legacy's first draft springs to mind as well as my last Nano novel's first draft). I'm impressed with the way the story actually flows from one thought to another and actually lends itself to the breakdown of chapters. Overall, it's not that bad.
But I'm not to the hard part yet. I'm getting there, but I haven't had to do that much to it. In the next ten pages, I'm going to have to fix large parts of the story line due to the changes I have in mind. It's going to get harder.
Still, it's a miracle that I'm on track as far as time is concerned. That part of the worry is over. It is entirely possible to get this thing edited, formatted, and ready for publication in two months.
Labels:
Editing,
Publishing,
Time Management
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Just keep going...one chapter at a time. One page at a time. One paragraph, one sentence, one word at a time.
And then it'll be done.
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