More editing was done

I started the day going through Rachel's edits of the second half of "Break and Enter" and we sent it to a couple of our betas. Some feedback has already come back, and it was extremely helpful.

Today I wrote the long-outstanding feature I promised my boss. That's 2k of writing and a whole day of work. (Yes, I did a good job procrastinating, too.)

Fiction wasn't written today, because then Alison got back to me and had chapter 30 of "Special Forces" edited, so I went through that, then cut and tweaked a little more. To give an update, we have 200k of the 600k of "Mercenaries" edited. I believe that's 400k of the total one million words. So, after more than a year of editing, we're not even halfway through. While I dream of editing one chapter every two weeks (with around 40 left, that's 80 weeks or just over 1.5 years), that's a hope more than anything. It's just so freaking enormous, and I fit the editing in when I'm not writing.

Well. It's a project. at least I know we're improving the text enormously and I don't have to be ashamed anymore of the slap-dash editing job of the first version.

The day after tomorrow, I'll start my new job. I'll spend tomorrow brushing up on some editor skills that they quite likely expect from me. All the paperwork should be in order, though. I'm curious how it'll all pan out.

Tomorrow, I'll write some more "Lying with Scorpions", maybe even some "Iron Cross" and then I was going to post a letter to the States. And that's my long break over.

Oh, and lastly, I found this very lovely review of "Test of Faith". Thanks, Lee!