Day: January 30, 2015

I’m going back through the book one more time, because I left a few highlights in place to deal with after I’d finished the first run through. That’s 9 notes and 12 highlights that remain. Once I’m done with those, it’ll be time to move on to a quick review of a legal blackline comparison of the draft pre- and post-edit. Then it’s formatting, side-loading, and a final read through. :D

I’m only doing the final read through because I made so many edits. Normally, I’m happy with one thorough read through, but I’m not confident this time that I haven’t made more typos, etc, so this is a chance to be sure everything looks and reads okay.

On the other hand, I might end up skimming a lot. I don’t have a lot of patience at the best of times and considering how tight my timeline is getting, I don’t know if I’ll be able to concentrate well enough to read it again! ;)

But I will say this. I am much, much happier with the book now. I’ve added about 826 words today net of deleted stuff, and the book is smoother, tighter, and all those dangling things that were worrying me aren’t worrying me quite so much now. I’m pleased. The book has some great moments, IMO. I laughed so hard at one point I almost cried. :D

I can definitely see myself rereading this book for fun and that’s my goal every time I sit down to write.

Whew. Now, back to work!

I’m at 90% on my Kindle location bar (and have gone from 32 page-swipes of notes and highlights to only 5!) so 90% really isn’t that far from 100% and I’m so excited to be this close to the end of this edit!

It wasn’t a long night after all, but not because I finished quicker than I expected. Oh, no. If you thought so, then you obviously haven’t been reading this blog long enough. :D

I gave up early. I estimated the time it would take today to finish (best case scenario I’ll be done at 11 pm tonight, worst case, tomorrow at 1 pm, haha) and then I assumed I’d hit the best case scenario and went to bed. :D

I’ve been editing today for 1 hour 40 minutes, and I’ve added 558 new words during that time while editing. This makes me really chafe at how slow I’ve been writing lately. There’s no point in it. I can write faster.

Ah well. Thoughts for another time. I need to get back to that copy editing. I’m finally at 50%. ;) (1 hour of the time was writing the new material, the 40 minutes was writing some new material but mostly progressing from 47% to 50% on the Kindle progress bar for my book. At that rate… Ouch. I don’t even want to think about it. I’m hoping it’s not true.)