The Edit: What It Looks Like
Jul
14
2014
Last Thursday I posted about diving into the edit of Daughter of Blood, (The Wall Of Night, Book Three.)
I also shared that the vital precursor was “reading through The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost — as discussed in Reading M’Own Books: How That Went — and finally the DAUGHTER manuscript.”
Anyway, I thought you might like to know what the process looks like.
Firstly, it takes a lot of space, so yay for the big table:
And then I want to make sure I don’t lose any of those “lots of notes”, so I carry the manuscript around like this:
As for those “lots of notes”, well, a page can look like this, i.e. relatively clear of annotations: 🙂
Then again, this can happen: 😉
Comments
Glad to see the work is coming together nicely! Big tables are great!
Big tables are the best, for sure!
And although it is a cliche to say that writing a book is a journey, that’s because it is a journey… 😉
It’s nice to hear that you’re currently editing the manuscript. I wish you good luck with the editing process!
Thank you! It is by definition a painstaking, attention-to-detail process, but that’s not a bad thing.
It looks like a *lot* of serious work !
I can see a SJV trophy in the corner of the photo.
It “is”, for sure. And you “can”–it’s the Sir JVA for Service: I took the photo the day it arrived.:)