Editing is a long and slow process, finding faults, removing redundant and repetitive words, fixing flaws - yes, I am trying to be poetic. It becomes painful when you find areas to correct that are just blank “fill-in-the-space” lines or comments of “add here.” It is also upsetting when you are correcting something you already fixed up on a previous document or discover typos that repeat for words. But I am Marching on, over 150 pages edited and despite knowing I have to divide 100 words into 4 chapters later, I am still fixing up the book.
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With unknown length of time to finish editing, I am moving my guessing competition forward. . I am having a guessing competition for those interested in getting their name in the next book I write. The person who guesses the closet, will have a character named after them – penname, nickname or birth name – the character will be set in the future and designed to represent them (if they wish). The word document is originally 410 pages – in A4 format, average font 11, 1.5 spacing for most of it. The guess is the total of words, not including Table of Contents and Titles. They have two weeks..
Writing Wednesday at my usual haunt.