Entering the Edits

I'm now in the process of making the digital revisions based on the physical edits from my previous printed draft. When I'm finished I will have a completed Draft 4. It doesn't seem like so many drafts would be possible. More scary is the thought that there will be a few more drafts before I declare the book ready for publishing. Hopefully all of the edits result in a better book. So far they have. I remember a poster in a high school english class. It was a quote from Stephen King "REVISE: Only God gets it right the first time". So, I figure that so many revisions can't hurt.

Everything is still moving well. I find myself making additional edits or crossing out my previous hand written edits. It's pretty much a second guessing of myself.

Currently I'm about 25 percent into the second half of the book. This is a part that I wrote early on in the process. Each part of the book can stand alone as it's own story - which is one of the reasons I started there. Also - I jumped around a lot when I first started writing. But as this part was one of the first pieces written, it's also one of the poorest. The segments have improved quite a bit, but they still need work. Though I have to say now that I don't hate reading them. No longer are they a jumbled confused mess.