Pressing On

As is obvious from the date of the posts, I haven’t been at the editing much lately. I just returned to editing the printed copy a few days ago. I mentioned it previously - personal life issues have come into play. So much that I almost didn’t want to return to it. I had gotten out of the routine of working on it. One of the biggest factors for me returning to it is that I have set my mind that I’m going to finish this.

Though, I’m done setting schedules - I’ve blown everyone I’ve made, so there doesn’t seem to be a point to doing it - it just makes me frustrated.

I still like what I read and like the ideas I come up with on the edits. I can see where you can constantly edit something - making it better and better, changing things around. I think I’ll have one more draft after this and it’s off to the printers. If I play with it too much I’ll just mess it up - and put in too many plot lines. It seems that if this doesn’t make it to a published work it will be from lack of time to devot to it as opposed to the quality of the work. I like it and think it may be something decent.

I may have lost my outside editor. She hasn’t touched her copy since last year? And only made it through the first few pages. At this point I think I’ll print off a clean copy post this last editing round I’m doing. I’ve changed a lot - so it will make much more sense to her AND be closer to the finished product. Though I wonder if she’ll look at that one either? It’s not really her preferred type of reading - plus it is closer to work than pleasure