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 for – but I was surprised just how bad they were. I originally typed a long piece about the issues I needed to resolve, but it was a ramble… too many words!

TLDR; I do software I do… so I wrote some code to take the manuscript paragraph by paragraph and push it through a number of online tools to help with the mechanical errors.

Anyway… I know I got myself stuck in the weeds over the first week, but that edit was done, and it was an interesting refresher. BTW: During that stage I’ve only dropped around 1k words.

So, the first edit is complete, on to the second edit. Maybe another week of reading passes and then I’m ready for a few key people to start reading it.