Still working on book 4…
For some reason, the 2nd edition re-edit of book 4 is taking me a hell of a long time. I’m frankly embarrassed by how poorly I edited it to start with, so the 2nd edition is going to be a vast improvement over the original. I’ve only finished chapter 14 on the first pass so far, and I’ve already added over 16K words to it. To put that into perspective, that’s about 2.75 chapters worth of material that I’ve added so far, and I’m not even done with the first pass yet. I’ve still got two chapters to go, and then I have to go through it a second time to double check for mistakes, things I want to re-word, things I want to add or embellish upon, etc…
Part of why it’s taken me this long so far is because I’ve been inordinately tired. I spent most of my days feeling mentally cloudy, and I just can’t edit when I’m like that. The final product would suffer, and I wouldn’t be happy with the end result, so I just have to edit when I’m clear and thinking properly. I took this past week off from the gym, both for muscle recovery, and so I could catch up on my sleep, so hopefully now that I’m done with chapter 14, which was a very involved chapter, things will speed up once again. The chapters with mostly dialog go a lot faster, so now that I’m past chapter 14, which was more descriptive and shorter on dialog, things should speed up once again. At least, I hope so. Anyway, I’ll keep plugging away at it. Then after I finish this one, I’ve only got seventeen more to go. 😛
Finally, the first re-edit pass of the 2nd edition of Revenge is complete!
After an ungodly amount of time, I finally finished the first pass of the 2nd edition re-edit of book 4 in the series, Revenge. During the first pass, I added 19,359 words, which is about three chapters worth of material. The book started at 104,665 words, and is now sitting at 124,024 words after the first pass. The second pass should go quite a bit faster since most of the heavy editing has been done already. The second pass usually consists mostly of rewording things, checking for typos, etc…
When I finish the second pass, then I have to make a new cover for it, write a new synopsis, update the author notes, put together the print version, etc… I still have a ways to go with it, but the main bulk of the work is out of the way now, so at least I’ve made some good progress. 🙂
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