[Writing Post] All About the Editing
Welcome to Wednesday. I’m actually going to get a blog post done before Noon today – mainly because for the next three business days, I’m working an evening shift (2-8 pm) – which feels very…odd. So in this first State of the Writer (ish) post, I’m editing/feedback stuff. OH – and happy birthday to Amber Benson, an excellent writer, person, and convention friend. She has a new book out this week, Witches of Echo Park, go check it out. My pre-order Christmas present was shipping delayed. It’ll be here tomorrow.
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The “to do” list gets a bit longer. I’m finishing up first round feedback of the last Redheads section. We’re meeting on the 19th (yay, Federal Holidays) to discuss the sections for fixes. Then it goes to being put together, then read for flow. There are many stages to a Redheads book. I should have the paper notes done this morning. Then I need to put this batch into track changes to have a digital fingerprint for this batch. Yes, we each have our own ways of dealing with stuff.
Another of my collaborations has come back to roost. This is a full on Where We are Now edit and move forward. The plan is to have a full early draft done by ConDFW. Which means I need to get me rear in gear, but Redheads hit the desk first.
I have a friend coming in town this weekend and Saturday plans (if the weather doesn’t turn on us – which would really make the weekend interesting with the day job), so my weekend work time will be limited… but with this temporary shift change, I’ll have mornings to work on these projects. Then we’ll see where we stand on other things. But the house is mostly clean, I’m hanging with the dogs until it’s time to get ready for work, and I got to sleep in some. Yay. So, now it’s time to get back to work.