Editing and Beyond: Life after NaNoWriMo

ecember 2nd and I still feel the ravages of NaNoWrimo all around me. It was beyond fun and exciting and I have to say for all the craziness I do feel like I got a good product out of it. Now that it’s over however comes the long and arduous process of editing. Here late night grammar and spelling errors must be dealt with. Scenes that were written more for the wording than actual relevance will have to be chopped or edited (you never know the hidden gems that may lie within) and everything else must be polished up to the fullest. In a way I’m excited, particularly because this is a book that I’ve been working on off and on since about 2003. To give you a more accurate picture I’ve written and rewritten this novel at least a thousand times in a thousand different ways and it’s only recently that I’m really really happy where this is going. To top it all off I’ve got a lot of ideas floating in my head for the sequel. A part of me wants to do the edits quickly because as any writer will tell you edits are generally the worst part of the job, and second because I want to be able to work on the sequel. A more daring author might be multi-tasking but given everything I’m trying to accomplish at once I’d like to limit what I pile onto the list. I’m terribly excited for everything to come over the course of the next few months. Wish me luck