Editing. Editing. Editing. Day 297

Tuesday 14th May – Day 297

It was actually nice to wake up to heavy rain today ((WHAT!!)) I know, I’m not a sun worshiper, as I’ve said before, some sunshine with cloud and I’m happy but as we’ve had some super hot days, so it was welcome and there is nothing like laying in bed listening to the rain and knowing that the only thing I have to focus on is editing my book for the next three days which might be a bit of a tall order! We will see.

So, to explain the process ((Oh here Peachy goes)) my editor will read through my novel ((with a bottle of vodka at the ready. Get out her big red pen and slash the pages!)) then return to me for the structural and the standard edits like punctuation/grammar etc ((Your poor, poor editor)) this is using a word document. I then read through all the comments and shout NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and then get to work. So, today I worked through to accept the changes and made the easy amendments. Some have be changed as part of a full read through for consistency. By lunchtime these are completed so I send these back to my editor to check and accept and then it will be returned to me for the full edit.

Whilst waiting for these to come back we do some faffing and cleaning on the boat and then I do some jigsawing and more faffing as well as a bit of a walk and try and steer clear of my laptop as editing is pretty intense on the eyes.

For anyone who reads this blog, they will know I’d had enough of this writing this book in January when I went to Jersey to finish the novel. This one has been hard, mainly because it started life as a short story, then it was going to be novella length and then novel so lots of changes were needed to warrant it being increased in word count and to make every word count! I think we have done it justice but we will see!

Day done.