Editing: Go Go Go

well, its my birthday and it turns out that the editing is done.  I will have the clean documents in my hands tomorrow.

Now, before people get excited, yes you in the back, that doesn’t mean that it will be uploaded right away. I still have to read through, add bits where indicated, check that the changes match the tone I was going for.

And there is more. As I went the whole hog in getting edited it is way more than just a clean up. It’s a content edit too. So parts will change, in more ways than one. This is the part where it gets tricky.

For those of you not in the know, there are several levels of editing.

Most commonly there are three but some services offer more modular services.

Proofreading: this is just a read through, it catches typos and the like.

Copy, or line editing: this is where syntax, spelling, punctuation and grammar issues are found and corrected.

Content edit: this one has many names, but it all means the same thing. Here is where the story is played with, tweaked into better shape. It makes for a better story, rather than a cleaner copy.

 

I went for all of them. And it cost a pretty penny too, which I’m totally not crying over, at all. But I have hopes that it will be worth it in the long run.

Because I went for all of them, I have several options. I’m going to get the clean copy out as soon as I can, but the content changes need more consideration.  I want to hurry up and move on to getting the draft of ML2 done, but I can’t.

I need to do justice to Tristan’s story, and that means going back in and seeing what needs fixing. Plus if I make any changes I’m going to need to reflect them in the later novels.  It makes sense to do this now.