Edits – Edits of Edits – and the Edited Edits of the Edits
In case you are wondering what this post is about – it is about cute baby animals
No, you’re right – it’s not
I just thought it would help to distract you from the title for a second. I’ve been making the final edits to my next novel ‘Bindings & Spines’ – and of coarse by final I mean final before I send it to my publisher and start the multiple rounds of edits associated with that. So here I am editing the manuscript that has gone past me twice, then to my personal editor, then past me again, then to my beta reader- then through me. Whew!
Only…. I just reached the spot where I stopped editing the chapters sent back to me by my beta reader.
Bad writer – no coffe . . . nah, can’t even type it.
So I had to go through my files and document in the B&S folder to find where exactly I had stored these, ‘from beta reader but not past me’ chapters. Managed that and, of course, because of rewrites and restructuring the entire beginning the chapters numbers are discombobulated but the store lines up, so that’s good. So now I get to edit through my beta readers comments as well as try to maintain an extra high level of alertness so that the last chapters of the novel go to Xchyler as well polished as the first ones.
I also need to insert the one new chapter ( and actually write a bit more of it to fit smoothly into the plot… once I discover where it goes exactly). I theory I still have plenty of time – unfortunately it is saying things like ‘ I still have plenty of time ‘, that leave you in a panic, stressed out, and beating your head trying to make a dead line.
Creative challenge unlocked – ready for more edits . . . if only I could remember where I put down my coffee
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