Category: Editing
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So what next?
I put the novel in the metaphorical drawer over the Christmas period, and ignored it. I handed it out to a few people to read, and I’ve had responses from all of them. They were all very positive. One of the main ones, was from an author friend of mine who I respect very much,…
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Losing Her Voice
Three weeks since my last update. At the end of that post, I mentioned that I was going to take two weeks off — I didn’t! It lasted a whole 2 days before I started an even more vigorous edit. One of the things that I noticed while reading the story, is that the narrators…
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Seven Weeks
It’s been almost seven weeks since I started the concerted effort to complete ‘The Many Dreams of Annabelle Cloud’. 47 days of which I actually wrote on 43 of them. The only days I didn’t write was those I was away from computer in Leeds. That is the best writing streak I have ever managed!…
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The First Edit
Just over a week since I finished the first draft of ‘The Many Dreams of Annabelle Cloud’. I definitely underestimated the amount of work just to do that first polish. I decided to deal head on with the obvious mechanical issues. Typos, spelling, punctuation, and grammar. These are things that I can use software tools…