Novel Notes: My Year of Editing and Research

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With "edits" for DawnSinger complete, I plan to edit my elf story next. Now I think about it, I've focused almost entirely on research and editing this year with very few forays into creation of raw material.

I started out the year with the manuscript for DawnKing complete but for several scenes of medieval siege warfare, a subject I knew nothing about. I embarked on an epic journey of research and now know more than I care to tell you about man's inhumanity to man. My research spanned several months and delayed other projects, but DawnKing and the final book in the Tales of Faeraven trilogy, Wayfarer, will be all the richer for my research.

Once I added the missing scenes, I edited DawnKing over several months but had to set it aside so I could concentrate on DawnSinger edits. I'll finish my second-pass editing of DawnKing in December, and then give it a rest while I research and write part of Hills of Nevermore, my historical romance WIP.

I've learned a great deal about writing through editing and I've developed a good system for research, so I can't complain, but I'll be glad to work on a new story in 2011.

© 2010 Janalyn Voigt

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