Editing: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chapter 14

Editing: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chapter 14

Last time, I talked about major surgery on the manuscript in the first round of edits. In addition to finding scenes that aren’t pulling their weight, sometimes you find the dreaded Continuity Error. As I’m reading, I’m also looking at the “when” for each scene. Admittedly, I’ve become lax in my tracking as I write, and I have no excuse beyond laziness.

At any rate, as I was reading, my characters had stopped for lunch in Chapter 13, a...