Update on my Second Novel
Stealing a line from my next novel, By Your Side, I have renamed my blog to "Alone Among the Words". This is a play off the line "Along among the dead" which becomes a key phrase to unlocking part of the mystery laid out in the novel.
As my final exercise before submitting By Your Side to the publisher, I'm reading the entire manuscript aloud. Although I'm confident that the proofreaders have caught 99% of the typos, the benefits of reading out loud are two fold.
It's good practice for when I record the audio version later, but more immediately it allows me to find awkward phrasing that can be changed or excess words to be trimmed that might not catch the eye but could trip the tongue.Once I've completed that, then it's off to the publisher which might just happen as early as this weekend! Wish me luck!!
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As my final exercise before submitting By Your Side to the publisher, I'm reading the entire manuscript aloud. Although I'm confident that the proofreaders have caught 99% of the typos, the benefits of reading out loud are two fold.
It's good practice for when I record the audio version later, but more immediately it allows me to find awkward phrasing that can be changed or excess words to be trimmed that might not catch the eye but could trip the tongue.Once I've completed that, then it's off to the publisher which might just happen as early as this weekend! Wish me luck!!
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