I Must Admit – I’m a Little Surprized

The edits have been going good. Yes, that surprises me. I expected more … complaints, issues, problems. I just dealt with a chapter that, in my mind, I was sure would be seen as boring and over loaded and… meh.

I got none of that. I was a bit surprised, and a bit buoyed up. I think it is possibly the chapter I worried over the most in the whole novel, so if it didn’t raise flags, and alarms, then I think the rest will be smooth sailing.

I mean it all needs work, here and there; words cut, phrases tightened, and bad metaphors swapped out but, plot wise, we are passed the roughest patch – I believe.

I re-wrote… well no, I wrote a whole new scene in a chapter because my editor pointed out that I had added a couple sentences that did nothing for the story but slow it down. So I just dived in and tried to pull the best pearl I could get back up. Hope it it works, time will tell.

This whole experience also gives me a good feeling about the rest of the novel already written in the series (though needing heavy first round edits) because I believe them to be stronger than the first in many ways. I progressed as a writer during the time and became even more familiar with the characters and world.

And because I was feeling good about it all, I opened a twitter account for the series @WhiteDragonBlack … you know to keep my throngs of fans updated about the series and share links to where they can find more stories about Jonathan Alvey’s adventures.

 

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