Adventures in Editing Part 1

Adventures in Editing 1

I’m in the midst of edits for the new book, Identity Crisis. When you think of edits, you think of markups on the page suggesting a different word, or fixing punctuation, or maybe pointing out your character has eaten breakfast three times that day. Those are the easy ones, and normally you can breeze through them in under a day.

But there are more levels of editing, such as when your editor points out character inconsistencies—not behaving in a ‘believable’ fashion, w...