Some Catchup

I never like doing the "catch up" sort of posts. I don't quite capture the emotions of the moment, but I feel I should note the past few months efforts in editing.

August through late October saw little activity on the editing front. Late October I was laid off from my paying job. After a few weeks of panic and coupon clipping I had little else to do but work on the GIANT. Having been off for so long I had to thumb through the draft to remember all the details of the plot. Once accomplished I dove back into it. Having long stretches of time I was able to make quite a bit of progress.

I did rework the plot slightly. I shifted some of the focus between the characters and further defined their roles. I also reworked the later chapters and the ending. It makes a little more sense now - along with having an added sense of mysticism (I hope). The more edits I make, the more I tweak the story and flesh out the plot, the characters, and their back story.

And having changed around the end of this so much I needed to go back and revise some earlier details. So I thumbed through the pages, adding in bits here and there. I find that when I'm making the changes to the digital file I don't read the story, anything I want to add I need to do to the physical print. Though I'm planning at least one more digital edit.

I never thought that everything would require so much editing, but the story has benefited from each revision. At some point, though, I'll have to stop making changes and call the thing finished.

Currently I'm making the digital changes based on the aforementioned physical edits. I will do my best to keep current the updates on my progress here.