As you can guess by now, the editing process has slowed to a crawl. I had intended to edit my chapter per day, but since may 24th (25 days ago), I only managed 19 chapters, and I simply don’t feel as if this editing pass is accomplishing anything. Sure, I correct spelling errors and such; maybe a couple words are cut here and there, but I don’t rewrite whole chunks. Maybe that will come with time, but right now, this first month editing feels like useless work to me. Think that I could be writing something else entirely, and get another story down, if only I hadn’t to edit that one, and that story NEEDS editing, believe me!

What is a poor writer to do?

One bright point : my alpha reader finished the first draft a week ago. I got the final remarks, which were nice (high kudos for originality!). That batch of remarks didn’t expose any huge plot holes, so I’m relieved : only small edits here and there. Funny to see how my alpha reader has an epidermic reaction to one of the characters : “I hope he dies in the end”, I was even told. Well, he doesn’t die, but his fate isn’t very nice, so I guess I delivered on that promise at least.

So, I have to continue my editing… Only one more month to go before I have to start all over again…

And for the next : my next book outline starts to grow – I have the story line from the brainstorming, so now, I need to fleshen the outline. We’ll see how that goes. And I got another project now : I was told that some site wanted fantasy short stories (I won’t mention which site here). I never considered ever writing one (heck, I can’t say anything under 10k words, so I can’t imagine being able to do more than say hello in 7.5k), but if I can pull it off, this would serve as a nice credential on my next cover letter, so I’m seriously considering it. Now, I only have to find a nice story to write…

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