Hopeful Signs
I realise I’ve said little for the last two months although quite a bit has been going on behind the scenes. I ‘engaged’ a professional editor at the beginning of June, and things are in the early stages, but so … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: My goals
Learning Curves
Funny how you can read the same thing over and over again, re-edit it for the umpteenth time and suddenly have an epiphany – well, fancy term for something that happened when the latest text-to-read runthrough reached a particular conversation. … Continue reading →
Spring Shoots
Well, a gap in the progress log again, but despite the lack of blogging about it, there has been some progress since my last post. Firstly, I’ve been carrying on with the ‘final’ edit of the WIP. Secondly, I have … Continue reading →
Pushing Through
Some progress over the last week or so. I completed the read-through to the end of the novel and embarked on creation of the fourth ebook version for a final read-through before approaching pro editors. I used the process I … Continue reading →
Still Making Progress
Well, only the second post of the year; already falling into bad habits! I just seem to be doing so much and not having a lot to show. But there is progress, in small stages. I’ve been working on the … Continue reading →
Keep On Keeping On
After the whole Christmas and New Year thing, it’s taking a while for energy levels to get back to normal as far as writing goes. Lots of distractions still keep appearing and I’ve only managed to edit another two chapters since … Continue reading →
Catching up is hard to do
Do you know that feeling when there are too many things to do and not enough hours in the day? Yep, that’s been the trouble here, for the last few months in particular, hence no posting on this blog, though … Continue reading →
Onward and Upward
Since the last post I’ve been busy, so busy I’ve had no time to blog about what I’ve been doing. First off, I completed CampNaNo well ahead of the target which I had revised a couple of times but couldn’t … Continue reading →
Camping It Up
Or not as the case may be … I’ve joined a cabin for July CampNaNoWriMo and set myself a modest initial target as I did in April. Although I should exceed it, I don’t think I’ll be able to manage … Continue reading →
Lessons in Line Editing Part 2
Since my previous update, I’ve continued using the text-to-speech method of editing and I’m finding it more and more valuable. It has shown up three typos so far, but its main use as before is in making it obvious where … Continue reading →