the GIANT : August 2008

Printing of Draft 4, Part 1

Draft 4? Wow, this little project just keeps chugging along. I’m guessing that it will go to at least Draft 6. Draft 4, Part 1 is now in the hands of my wife. It’s roughly the first 20% of the book. She’s about 1/3 of the way into it and has had a lot of great feedback. She gives me hope that the book might actually make sense to someone other than myself when this is all over.

To format and print the previous drafts I had used an old version of Microsoft Word. I have a rebuilt computer and could not reinstall the program. So, I’m now an openOffice user. It’s much like Word, except that it’s free. Good news for me. So I am now working in openOffice instead of a .rtf editor.

I’ve been side tracked and haven’t made any progress with either the hand editing or the digital inputs of the previous hand edits. It’s my intention to keep pace with my wife so she can get through her edit without waiting on me. I’ll then take her edit, make notes on it for me, and make another sweeping change to the text.

I hope by the end of that to have most of editing done.

Posted by Don Clark at 3:22 PM
Categories: Editing, Writing

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Nope, I’m not going backwards. With my wife off from work with the baby, she finds herself with time to edit the GIANT. So, I’ve started entering my latest round of edits n the computer. I’m going to print out the first chunk of the book (which could stand alone as it’s own short story) for her to edit.

I’m finding that the input of the edits is going quicker than I thought. Much faster than it took to make them in the first place.

I’m also finding that I glossed over some paragraphs on my edit. Hopefully this was just the first few pieces that I wasn’t on the ball. Good thing that my wife will be there for a pass too. Plus, I’m going to take at least another comprehensive on screen look at the piece. I had originally not wanted to do that, but it’s the only way to generate a solid product. The better the product the better chance of success.

Or the more time that I waste on something no one will ever read? I could see it going both ways - I’m feeling more positive about the book - despite having no real education or training in writing.

Posted by Don Clark at 10:24 AM
Categories: Editing

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Printing of Draft 4, Part 1

Friday, August 01, 2008

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