Update: Endless Revision

Primary revision of Silver Circle II and III is going fine. It’s not like it isn’t going fine. It’s just … you know, it’s one of those natural human things, where when you’re writing the initial draft, you can’t WAIT to get through it and start revision, but the second you start revision, you just want to go on to the NEXT book and go back to writing a draft. (As with everything else, I enjoy revision more when it’s a Tuyo-world novel, but even there it can get tedious.)

Anyway: that’s where I am. I feel just like Sisyphus.

Image from Pixabay

Meanwhile!

I’m still going through the Griffin Mage trilogy and correcting the formatting. Commenter Mona made a suggestion that turned out to be helpful for finding and removing all numerals in any order — in Word, the code that means “any numeral” turns out to be ^#, perhaps predictably, and if you Find that and replace with nothing, boom, all numbers disappear. Doesn’t matter if they’re single-digit or multi-digit numbers. That takes out all numerals, poof. This plus just a few other tactical uses of Find and Replace cleared out 90% of the formatting weirdness. The only thing left is fixing places, primarily in dialogue, where there is an unnecessary paragraph break. I’m skimming through the trilogy lightly to fix that and then I’ll reread it properly, from the top, on my laptop.

I’m fine with rereading because I’m also tweaking paragraphing and removing a good number of colons, dashes and ellipses and very occasionally moving a line or changing a word or whatever. I meant to basically not touch anything, but that resolution fell by the wayside and here I am, taking out lots of colons, dashes and ellipses. I haven’t touched any semicolons, though. Commenter Mike S offered to create a usable file for me from the ebook (thanks, Mike!), and if and (hopefully) when something else reverts and this comes up again, I may be asking for help with doing that. Especially because I know for certain I don’t have proofed copies of all the early books. But it’s been such a long time since I’ve looked at this trilogy that I’m actually enjoying this.

Meanwhile!

I’m reading some posts from Publisher Rocket and thinking about redoing the keywords for all my books, particularly the Black Dog series, but basically everything. I’ll be revising the book descriptions for the Black Dog series and doing this and that and I suppose I will mention now that I am putting new covers on all the books in this series. This project has been underway since last year. I’ll replace all the covers for the earlier books at the same time that I put Silver Circle I, II, III up for preorder. I expect I’ll do a specific post about the new covers and new book description and everything soon. But ALSO, I’m thinking about this keyword stuff. I will need to bring my laptop to the office on some weekend and spend a few hours looking at keywords on Publisher Rocket. WHEN I HAVE TIME, I will do that.

So much to do!

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