While There is Still Time . . .

I know there are two points in ‘Tomorrow Wendell’ that need changing, that I haven’t gotten to yet. I alerted my editor to their existence so that there would be no surprises to pop out suddenly and went on filling out the forms.

And yet…

It nagged at me.

One scene wouldn’t be too hard to rework. It was a simple, beginners mistake. I wrote a conversation and put the one person’s dialogue in the phonetic spelling to match their geographical accent. Big mistake that I didn’t do in any other novel. But I had yet to change it in this, the first of the series, and it really needs to happen.

The other issue is going to be a bit trickier.

I had arranged for one gun to fire special bullets (if you read my sort story in Shades and Shadows: A Paranormal Anthology, you know what I’m talking about). One day I was lucky enough to speak with someone with some knowledge of firearms and he set me straight on how it could work. Unfortunately, it meant switching around the style of gun used – and this affected the shots per load.

I was fortunate enough to have this talk before ‘The Cost of Custody’ was published and managed to make the changes in that story. I have written all subsequent passages using the new information but haven’t changes any old ones.

This needs to change in ‘Tomorrow Wendell’. It involves going through a number of chapters and changing, tweaking, and out right rewriting to set it right.

I have some time before we start on the content edits. I think I’ll use it to make these changes now while the pressure isn’t ‘on’ and we are not fighting a dead line. It seems the kindest way to go for everyone involved.

I’ve added it to the long ‘TO DO’ list sitting beside my keyboard that tracks all the events regarding getting the novel published.

I’ll have to squeeze it in around the other things on the list.

Meanwhile, I continue to try and write a thousand words a day in the fourth installment of the series. Writers are lazy in many ways – we hate to get up out of the chair – but we hate not working those words even more.

 

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