Category: Editing
Character Worksheet
In one of my first posts I mentioned that I developed a rather detailed worksheet to keep track of my characters, locations, and specialized language references. As I continued my editing of Any Tomorrow: The Curse and Any Tomorrow: The Culling, I thought I might update the worksheet. I have…
The Story Unfolds
cjsand asked for it, so here it is. A teaser, a little hint about the storyline of the Any Tomorrow trilogy. I guess I should have provided this before, but up until very recently I wasn’t completely sure what form the novel would take, or even if it would be…
Those Dark Thoughts
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A Few Edits and a Funeral
It’s an unfortunate truth that even the most well thought out plan is subject to the demands and restrictions of the real world. A few days ago I thought that all I had left to do was to create my cover art, create a .mobi format file, and submit my…
Speculative Fiction
I am glad to say that I have finally finished editing for content. I think I’ve caught as many dropped words, extra spaces, misused words, and problems with specialized vocabulary that I reasonably expect to. I have also begun editing for format using the Simplified Guide to Building a Kindle…
More Decisions to Make
Well, we’re almost there, just a few more pages to edit and I think I’ll be ready to begin the process of Kindlizing (is that even a word?) my eBook. I’ll start with Kindle because I imagine that by the time I have the format down for Kindle, it will…
A Step Closer
As I work my way through this writing and editing process, I am constantly amazed by the all the changes I’ve experienced. For instance, I’ve finally decided that my novel will now be a trilogy. It started out as a thought, then grew and grew as plots and subplots developed…
Editing, Reviewing, and Revising (continued)
Everyone wants their novel to be perfect, but how many novels have you read that contain absolutely no errors? Even novels by well known authors published by major publishing houses contain errors. Nothing major, perhaps a small typo, a transposed letter, or word. It does happen. Human error is inevitable….
Editing, Reviewing, and Revising
Having decided on a publication strategy, morphing my 330,000 word novel into a trilogy, I am once again in the throes of editing, reviewing, and revising. I have three main goals in this process. My first goal is to wind up with tight, concise, well crafted story. My second goal…
