Welles Lang's Magic Box
I'm nearly finished with this. I'm executing what I hope will be my last round of edits.
Proofreading can be a little like weeding in the garden. No matter how many offending sprites you pull up from the roots there always appears something you've overlooked. I soldier on.
This latest round has exposed a few missed dialogues that were attributed to a different character than I'd meant. I corrected it. Then there are the numerous left out y's from the that became they. Additionally there are missing closed quotes as well as opening quote marks that I'm correcting.
I've changed several exchanges to hopefully make them more believable and finally I realized that my time line needs to be adjusted to account for the amount of time discussed.
In all this additional excursion into my novel has been necessary to make it even better than it already was, and I love this book. I'm going to publish it before December is done. I hope you'll give it a chance.
So with all this nuts and bolts stuff about craft I've been enlisting my dream time to envision a set of new characters who respond to bullying, harassing jerks with a brilliant use of technology to rescue the boy and the girl from lesser minds, thus launching them into a place of escape and challenge where they will have to use their minds and guts to find their place in this new world.
Proofreading can be a little like weeding in the garden. No matter how many offending sprites you pull up from the roots there always appears something you've overlooked. I soldier on.
This latest round has exposed a few missed dialogues that were attributed to a different character than I'd meant. I corrected it. Then there are the numerous left out y's from the that became they. Additionally there are missing closed quotes as well as opening quote marks that I'm correcting.
I've changed several exchanges to hopefully make them more believable and finally I realized that my time line needs to be adjusted to account for the amount of time discussed.
In all this additional excursion into my novel has been necessary to make it even better than it already was, and I love this book. I'm going to publish it before December is done. I hope you'll give it a chance.
So with all this nuts and bolts stuff about craft I've been enlisting my dream time to envision a set of new characters who respond to bullying, harassing jerks with a brilliant use of technology to rescue the boy and the girl from lesser minds, thus launching them into a place of escape and challenge where they will have to use their minds and guts to find their place in this new world.
Published on November 27, 2017 19:38
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Editing progress
This book was interesting in that I reviewed and corrected the previous day's writing before starting on the next. I caught a lot of errors and made a lot of changes that way.
It still amazes me how ma This book was interesting in that I reviewed and corrected the previous day's writing before starting on the next. I caught a lot of errors and made a lot of changes that way.
It still amazes me how many changes beg to be made in essentially the third pass through the book.
After I make the changes I'm working on I suppose I'll have to print out another copy and read it again before uploading the novel for consumption. Arduous process indeed! ...more
It still amazes me how ma This book was interesting in that I reviewed and corrected the previous day's writing before starting on the next. I caught a lot of errors and made a lot of changes that way.
It still amazes me how many changes beg to be made in essentially the third pass through the book.
After I make the changes I'm working on I suppose I'll have to print out another copy and read it again before uploading the novel for consumption. Arduous process indeed! ...more
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