First Pass Pages
For those of you who might not know how the editing process goes (I sure didn't!), I'll tell you what I'm doing to my new novel right now. Novel-to-be. Coming, January, 2015.
We've been through copyediting. That was about a month or two ago. Time flies.
During that stage of the process, I changed sentences, checked time frames, made sure my characters' names, hair colors, etc, were consistent. Answered all the copyeditor's questions. There were a few. Okay more than a few. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now I have in front of me an actual printed copy, sent by Scholastic, of what the book's pages will look like. FIRST PASS PAGES. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chapter headings, italics, the "handwritten" notes set off in different fonts, etc. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">TA-DA!</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lprnXzLcnz4..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lprnXzLcnz4..." height="240" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(No, that's not what the actual <i>cover art</i> will look like. Stay tuned for that as soon as I can share.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now this is our chance to fix tiny things. Like whether a question mark might be better than that period I originally thought worked. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or whether it's possible that a bucket of night crawlers would cost $.50 in 1974.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Yes, because my brother and his fishing buddy Galen told me so. It's a big bucket.)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This time I didn't get as many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stet" target="_blank"><i>Stet's</i> </a>as before. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That means <i>should we leave it as is, for voice? </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For example, "<a href="http://www.word-detective.com/2013/09..." target="_blank">I swan"</a>-- which we all recognize as a real word, right?</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Maybe because this novel isn't as southern as GLORY BE was. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or maybe this editor grew up in the South and has a southern granny in her family. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tomorrow, off it goes. Back to my editor. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">All 170-plus pages of THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY! </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">PS If you're still reading...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">After meticulously going over the entire manuscript for the zillionth time this weekend, I decided I could finally toss out some of the old printed chapters I'd saved during revision. And I discovered some interesting (to me! Possibly to no one else!) things. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1. The first time I showed it to a professional in the book business was in 2004 at a Rutgers One-on-One conference when my mentor was Sally Keehn. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My agent, Linda Pratt, was also there. Fun to imagine what would have happened if our paths had crossed way back then. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">2. One of my longest critiquing friendships has been with my buddy Janet McLaughlin. She's now in my actual Florida writers group (Go, Skyway Writers!). But I bet she doesn't remember seeing THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY when we were in that now defunct online group, many moons ago. Many titles ago. Many character deletions and renamings ago.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The group didn't last long for us, but I continued to tap away at this book and Janet continued to comment.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also smiled to see other familiar names critiquing my early versions. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When Sue Laneve organized a new Pinellas County Florida group, I found my people.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My very first SCBWI Critique group. </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hello, Denis, Sylvia, Lenore et al.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thanks, Sue. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZUE7X0anh0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZUE7X0anh0..." height="320" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Old chapters, ready for recycling!)</div><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
We've been through copyediting. That was about a month or two ago. Time flies.
During that stage of the process, I changed sentences, checked time frames, made sure my characters' names, hair colors, etc, were consistent. Answered all the copyeditor's questions. There were a few. Okay more than a few. <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now I have in front of me an actual printed copy, sent by Scholastic, of what the book's pages will look like. FIRST PASS PAGES. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Chapter headings, italics, the "handwritten" notes set off in different fonts, etc. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">TA-DA!</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lprnXzLcnz4..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lprnXzLcnz4..." height="240" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(No, that's not what the actual <i>cover art</i> will look like. Stay tuned for that as soon as I can share.)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now this is our chance to fix tiny things. Like whether a question mark might be better than that period I originally thought worked. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or whether it's possible that a bucket of night crawlers would cost $.50 in 1974.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Yes, because my brother and his fishing buddy Galen told me so. It's a big bucket.)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This time I didn't get as many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stet" target="_blank"><i>Stet's</i> </a>as before. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That means <i>should we leave it as is, for voice? </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For example, "<a href="http://www.word-detective.com/2013/09..." target="_blank">I swan"</a>-- which we all recognize as a real word, right?</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Maybe because this novel isn't as southern as GLORY BE was. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Or maybe this editor grew up in the South and has a southern granny in her family. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tomorrow, off it goes. Back to my editor. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">All 170-plus pages of THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY! </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">PS If you're still reading...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">After meticulously going over the entire manuscript for the zillionth time this weekend, I decided I could finally toss out some of the old printed chapters I'd saved during revision. And I discovered some interesting (to me! Possibly to no one else!) things. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1. The first time I showed it to a professional in the book business was in 2004 at a Rutgers One-on-One conference when my mentor was Sally Keehn. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My agent, Linda Pratt, was also there. Fun to imagine what would have happened if our paths had crossed way back then. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">2. One of my longest critiquing friendships has been with my buddy Janet McLaughlin. She's now in my actual Florida writers group (Go, Skyway Writers!). But I bet she doesn't remember seeing THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY when we were in that now defunct online group, many moons ago. Many titles ago. Many character deletions and renamings ago.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The group didn't last long for us, but I continued to tap away at this book and Janet continued to comment.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also smiled to see other familiar names critiquing my early versions. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">When Sue Laneve organized a new Pinellas County Florida group, I found my people.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My very first SCBWI Critique group. </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hello, Denis, Sylvia, Lenore et al.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thanks, Sue. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZUE7X0anh0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZUE7X0anh0..." height="320" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Old chapters, ready for recycling!)</div><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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