10 Editing Steps (sometimes seconds, sometimes days – or lots longer – between them)
Posted by admin on 15 Sep 2017 at 05:36 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
1. Phew: ready. This section could be working.
2. Hmm: that remark a character made halfway through. And maybe the ending could be ramped up. Better have a look.
3. Yes: fix the remark, and the ending.
4. Also: a couple more things.
5. Perfect: wouldn’t want to ruin the new concepts by writing them into the manuscript, though.
6. Um: might as well try.
7. And: fix the other stuff the fixing turned up. And re-try, maybe revert to the original where the fixing turns out to be goofy.
8. Oh: tweak words in other sections of the manuscript memory, and the Find function, have revealed.
9. Again: re-read the section. Better now?
10. Finally: it’s never done. And I’m never sure.