Happy Monday!
It’s going to be ridiculously hot the next few days, which makes staying in an air conditioned room and writing all the more attractive! Sitting in one place is already very attractive right now after spending the weekend babysitting and bartending. Have I mentioned I’m in my 50’s? Young children are a young adult’s game…
I sent Rogue Medicine, which is Book 1 to my friend and critique partner and she gave me some fabulous feedback. It’s amazing what you miss when it’s your own writing and you know what’s happening. Let me put this in perspective for you…
I am an English teacher. Grammar is my job. I go through my books at least twice before I send them off to my critique partners and I always, always find mistakes in each review. My critique partners also find mistakes, which I fix when I go through the book a third time. When I was writing for various publishers, I would then send the book to my editor who would go through it and find more errors, which I would fix and send back. Then she’d do another round and find other errors, which would get fixed before it went to a different editor, who would also find errors that would get fixed before the book was published.
Then in the published work, someone would find a typo, or the wrong name in a place, or a missed end quote or something else like that. At minimum, that’s six reviews with at least four pairs of eyes on one story and mistakes still slip through.
My students complain because I make them run spellcheck and beg them to proofread before they turn in their work. ::eye roll::
Today, my plan is to go back into Rogue Medicine and make the changes my cp noted, as they make the book better and it will affect some of what I’m doing in Book 2. I’m hoping I’ll still have something left in the creative fuel tank to get some words in on Book 2, because I don’t know how much writing time I’ll have over the next two weeks and I need to prioritize writing as much as I can this summer.
I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow…
