Saturday Editing

I spent a lot of the day Saturday editing Next Time. I really didn’t plan on taking most of a weekend day to do so, but I was enjoying the story and didn’t want to quit. I hope that’s a good sign.

I’m giving the book one more runthrough to see how it flows after the changes I made the past couple of weeks. I’ll probably need to make some tweaks, and of course I’ve found numerous missing words or typos. What I really want to make sure of is that I haven’t made something redundant or contradicted something else in the book.

For example, there’s a scene where a minor character asks the main character how many times he’s met someone. He says it’s three times, but I honestly couldn’t remember for sure since I’d added some scenes. So, I took the time to go back and count the appearances. The last thing I want to do is take the reader out of the book with such a simple error.

Once I finish this editing run, I’ll do one more, reading it aloud to myself. My own private audiobook, if you will.

Saturday turned out different than I’d planned, but in a good way.