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Finish Line Ahead
Once again I’m staring down the path at the finish line. This time is a little different for me because it is not part of my Misfit McCabe series.
The Love Hate Relationship
I have a love / hate relationship with my editing software. I go through and do all of my edits, do a read through, and when I think things are in good shape, I bring out the evil editing software. I call it evil S.
Revisions and Edits Bear Gems
Today I happened to be over at my TwitterSister Eisley Jacob’s blog checking our her post on editing and revising. This is a topic which is always dear to my heart, since I spend so much of my time on a book in this phase.
Time to Stop Procrastinating
There are days I feel like I was born to procrastinate. I can be very good at it if I want to be. Anything and everything can serve as a distraction for the work I should be doing.
Phases of Editing – One Author’s Process
As I have been going through the editing process with Nowhere Feels Like Home, I felt it might be time to talk a little bit about the phases that I go through when editing. I will state up front that these phases are my phases and not all authors edit in the same way, just as they don’t write in the same way.
Phase I – Repetitive word editing, or as I like to call it, getting the wuzziness out. I happen to be a very wuzzy writer (meaning I use the word was as if it were going out of style), and it simply won’t do for a finished product. I generally find all of the highly used repetitive words and attack some of them based on those which I feel I may have overused.
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Editing – Where Do You Start?
You’ve finished writing your story and if you are anything like me, you feel like doing a few fist pumps in the air, and taking a victory lap. Walking on air, you’re bursting with pride. You finished. What an accomplishment!
Then, the reality starts to set in. The creative process is finished, but the race is not yet run. Looming in your future is the arduous task of editing your masterpiece or as I call it at this point, my monstrosity. Where do you start? What can you look for?
Editing for Continuity
One of the things that you have to watch for when you are working on a story that is a continuation from a previous work is continuity, or even within the same story continuity errors can crop up. What do I mean by continuity? If you give your character blue eyes in one book, then you can’t give that same character brown eyes in the next book, unless you are deliberately having the character wear eye changing contacts for a reason integral to the plot. As you are reading this, I know that you’re thinking to yourself, but I would never make that sort of mistake. Believe me, it is much easier than you think to make those sorts of errors. In the world of TV and Films, there are people whose job it is to ensure that all of those details are attended to, and mistakes will still creep in. I’m sure you noticed things when watching one of your favorite TV series.
How Authors Get Story Ideas
One of the questions that most fiction authors are asked at one point or another is “how did you get the idea for the story?” Sometimes this is a hard question to answer.
Proofreading & Life Experience
One of the big issues for most writer’s centers around editing the manuscript, down to the level of correcting errors. Below is some correspondence I had with Ms. Pam’s class where they unearthed an error in the manuscript and helped to point it out.