Oceans of red ink

I finished the initial pass of corrections to my WIP first draft. This consists of pretty basic stuff, such as:
determining the genders of certain charactersthe existence (or removal) of other charactersdeciding on the balance of furious vs. suicidal for my MCsettling on the spelling of namesflagging the big sections of tell, tell, tell so I can replace them with show, show, shownoting where I need more action, better dialogueI still need to decide if my MC is merely alone in the world, or if he's "my ex-girlfriend is standing right over there, I can see her but not talk to her" alone.

With a binder full of marked up hardcopy, the next step will be to start rewriting the text to implement these corrections. I also need a better ending, but I'm confident that will come.

At some point, I'll have to post a few pictures to explain how I solved the problem of using a 3-ring binder on an airplane fold-down tray . It's an elegant solution, even if it does involve duct tape.

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