“Inside The Revision” being a subset of “Inside the Writing Life.” 😀 (As it were; so to speak…)

With any manuscript revision, there’s always lots of checking, particularly around set up from the previous books — not to mention what characters said and did, or how magic worked, or settings and other worldbuilding detail.

Now that I’m not only working on the last book, but the final half of the last book, with wrap-ups and resolves very much the order of the day, the fact checking has also increased exponentially.

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By way of an example, today I was leafing back through HEIR to check on translocation and portal use, and DAUGHTER, just to refresh on various aspects of the epilogue.

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All in a revision day’s work, but it always repays the effort. Sometimes, because I realise whatever I’m checking is out of sync.

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But others because I have the reward of finding that, yep, something set up in Book One is playing out exactly as envisaged. (Awesome: high five all round with the Muses. 😉 )

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Check, check, check again, then onward, like Tolkien’s road in The Lord of The Rings.

The road goes ever on…