Hard Copy Now Finished

So I've recently finished correcting the hard copy version of my story. Now I just have to implement those changes to the computer files and I will be finished. I think. I don't think I have it in me to go through it once more, so I think that this will be the final time through. It's been a lot of work so far and although it feels good to be nearing the end of this book, I have the feeling the hardest part is yet to come. I still have to go through the publication process and work out a cover and a few other things, but I'm hoping to have it out before Christmas this year. Let's see how that turns out.

More Progress

So, I've edited four more chapters since my last update, leaving me with eleven chapters left. Most of the corrections have gone okay. I still feel like a couple chapters are a bit sluggish, but certainly not as much as they were at the beginning. I think that once I finish all these corrections I think I'll be very close to publishing the book. I'm very excited to get on with the second book.

Well, I'll update again soon. Until next time...

Invigorated to More Editing

I've gotten the chance to visit with some friends of mine who haven't been around for a while and they have spurred my interest to get my book finished. Their encouraging words and comments have lead me back to the path of editing my book and I am incredibly appreciative of it.

Anyways, I've edited a few more chapters and I've very pleased with the corrections I have implemented. I've added a few sentences here and there as well as an entire paragraph that I believe helps greatly describe the atmosphere of a new location that pops up later on in the book. So I'm feeling refreshed and ready to get this book to a close.

Thank you my friends and my readers, for giving me the inspiration to work on.

I'm Not Dead Yet!

It's been a very long time since my last update, and I'm feeling a tiny bit ashamed. All is not in vain however. During the last five months I have been working on corrections. Now the progress has been a bit slow due to other more pressing life matters, but I'm working on my book more regularly. I think once I realized I wasn't going to have my book out for the holidays of this year I got a bit depressed, which is a very bad state to be in when correcting.

Anyways, I'm correcting once again and things are going rather well. The whole book has been printed out, and I've been doing corrections by hand with a bright red pen--or blue when I can't find my red pen. It's a little daunting to see so many red marks all over each page, especially after the amount of times I've read each chapter over, but I think it's really pulling everything together nicely.

My main focus has been on punctuation and grammar this time, but there have been a significant number of rewritten passages and quite a few additions that are really helping make the book feel more whole. This read through has been extremely time consuming since I've been having to read through multiple grammar books and such. It's been making me wonder if I just wasn't paying very close attention in school when we did grammar, or if most of it just wasn't taught. I'm guessing it was probably a little of both.

I'm thinking I'll probably be starting up a twitter account soon. I've never used one or really even followed one before, but it seems like a convenient way for people to see updates and status reports for things, so I thought maybe I'd give it a try.

So, I plan on keeping up with this blog better than I have been. If for no other reason then to let people know I haven't thrown in the towel.

Until next post...

Day 17 Chapter 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 & 41 Book 1

Alright, so I managed to zoom through the last seven chapters today. I don't know how I was able to manage that, but I did, so yay! There was mostly just typo problems and a few sentences that need to be rewritten to make more sense, but that was about it. I think I added a small paragraph to chapter 41 to help tie things together.

So I just have the hard copy left to go over and once I'm done with that, I think I'll be done and ready to get it published. It's been a long, long process and I'm happy to see it coming to an end so I can start on the second book.

Anyways, that's all I have to say for now, so I'll post back later.

Day 16 Chapters 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 & 34 Book 1

WOW!!! I managed to get through six chapters today. I'm not exactly sure how it happened either, a few of those chapters are quite long. But I managed to do it and I'm happy to say that I only have seven more left until this draft can be considered done.

Some of these chapters need a bit of work and some were actually in good shape. I'd say that chapter 32 need the most work and that chapter 33 needed the least. I didn't have to add anything major to any of them. I think the main plot elements and such work well the way they are, there's just some grammar stuff in them that need to be tweaked a bit.

So I start house sitting on Monday, which should give me a lot of time to work on this book. I know for sure that I will be completing this draft over that time period and will probably make good headway on the printed draft corrections. (which I plan to be my last read over). I think that over these two weeks I will also attempt to do some drawing for the book, or at least some time to improve my drawings to see if I can come up with something that will work for the book. I really hope I can.

Anyways, that's all I have to say for this post. I'm glad I'm making such progress and I hope to continue. Until my next post, I bid farewell.

Day 15 Chapters 25, 26, 27 & 28 Book 1

I managed to get a lot of chapters done today. I don't even know how I managed it. That being said I fell like there was very few corrections made, at least with 27 and 28. I'm not sure if that was due to me rushing through them a little, or if they really were in good condition. I mean I enjoyed reading through them and I didn't get that feeling when I read over certain passages where I have to deconstruct them and rearrange the words until it flows better, so I think that's a good sign.

Sadly I wasn't as thrilled with chapter 25 this time through as I had the last time. That was the chapter that I bragged about in an early post. This time through though I felt like there was a bunch of stuff that just...were worded to oddly. Like I described things in a stupid roundabout way instead of in a nice flowy normal way. I think I fixed a lot of this and I do feel that the original emotion I wanted to get form the chapter is there, it just needs to be strengthened a bit.

As for chapter 26 I think it was a pretty normal chapter to go over. There were a few minor things that needed attention, but nothing major. It was fun to read over and I think it's about ready for publishing. Yay.

So yeah, four chapters done in one day. I really hope I can do this the next time too. I don't know how much time I'll have tomorrow to work on these chapter. I have a funeral to go to and then I have work later in the day, so I'll see if maybe I can get through the next chapter. If I do, it'll probably be the only one I do get through. It's a long chapter. And next week I start house-sitting again so I'll have plenty of time to go over the chapters. I'm expecting to get done with all the edit on the third draft and hopefully a lot done on the hard copy.

Alright, I will post back later.