Well this week was meant to be devoted to rewrites. I did some, no really I did. One great thing was as I read through my notes of what I had to change, I found I'd already done at least half. That made me feel great.
Then I didn't do much more.
On the good side, I did finish making all the changes that I'd taken notes about. On the bad side, I realised I now need to read through the whole book again and do what I'm calling an in-line rewrite, where I edit on the fly, rather than print it out and make the changes on paper. I think that's going to work better for me.
Once that's done, it's a final spell and grammar check and then I give it to MrIcy as my first beta reader. Hmmm.
To fill in my lunch break at work this week, I whipped up a one page and a four page synopsis. I gave the one page one to MrIcy to review. Interesting experience. I needed to keep reminding him not to call me pretentious.
That advice that people give, how you shouldn't be married to your beta reader. Yeah. Maybe that's a good idea. We'll see.
So, no idea how much I'll get done this week as I'm attacking each of the many piles of mess around the place in preparation to showing the house for sale. This could take a while.
2 comments:
Oh darlin', selling your house and working and writing a book and raising a kid?!
Whoa.
I'd need medication.
Yeah, but the kid is great, the house just needs a masssive tidy and carpets cleaned, and I only work 2 days a week.
It's the WIP that's suffering. It's not on hold, but it's goin' slow.
Taking a day off work tomorrow for the cleaning and the writing ('cause MissIcy will still be in daycare and I can concentrate).
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