Day 11 Chapter 16, 17 & 18 Book 1

I got three chapters done today. I know it's been a long time since the last batch, but things have been a bit hectic lately. Anways I'm back in the mood to do some corrections so I'll be trying to do more this following week.

These three chapters were in good condition, especially chapter 17. It might have had something to do with the fact that most of it is dialogue, which I feel is my strong point when it comes to writing. 16 is short so there wasn't much to do there and 18 mostly just had some grammar issues. I don't recall adding anything to major to any of these chapters, just a bunch of corrections.

So that's all I have to say on those chapters for now. Until next I post.

Day 10 Chapters 14 & 15 Book 1

I finished two more chapters the other day. Chapter 14 was in rough shape, but I think I got it into a pretty decent state. There were a few passages in particular that I felt I was able to really enhance. As for chapter 15, it was in pretty good shape to begin with. There were a few awkwardly worded bits of dialogue, but I cleaned them up. I feel like this chapter is a bit more of an emotional chapter than a lot of the others so it was very important for me to make sure that my writing didn't hamper the emotion any. There were a few instances where I found dips in the emotion and I did tidy those spots up well. So overall I'd say that 15 is one of the closest chapters to being ready to publish. Yay

Anyway, I don't know when I'll do more corrections, but hopefully it'll be soon. Until next post.

Day 9 Chapter 11, 12 & 13 Book 1

I made quite a bit of progress today. I finished correcting three chapters. I'm not really sure how I feel about them though. I think I made a significant amount of changes to chapter 11 and I think it turned out fine, but I did feel like parts of 12 were a little bit less great and even more so for 13. I don't know if I just ran out of juice as I went or what, but I do know that I'm going to have to look over them again, I'll probably just read over them tomorrow on the hard copy and just go over them again when I read over the hard copy as a whole.

I felt like I found a lot of the same things in these three chapters as I did in 10. There were the nonsensical sentences that I had to fix and an awful lot of boring passages that still need to be fixed up. I just feel like 13 was rushed through originally or something, the writing isn't my best. So I'll have to address that, but otherwise I think 11 and 12 are fairly good, especially after my corrections today.

So this brings the third draft to 1/3 completion. It a nice feeling to have only 2/3 left and I hope to soon reach the half way mark. Anyways, I going to go now and try to clear my mind. Too much correcting for one day.

Day 8 Chapter 10 Book 1

I finished correcting chapter 10 today. I was a bit surprised that I was able to get it done. I had to stay later at work yesterday so I didn't have time to work on then and I was called in today so I wasn't sure if I'd have time to finish it before I had to leave, but I triumphed. Anyways, there wasn't too much to do to this chapter. Nothing was majorly changed or anything, but there were some really odd sentences that didn't make any sense. I think that they must have gotten messed up during one of my other read throughs since it seemed like there were two thoughts present in the sentences that didn't connect. I just hope I'm not doing anything like that this time through...

Anyways I need to go get ready for work. I hope to do chapter 11 on Monday, it's a little shorter so maybe I'll be able to fit in two chapters, that is if I don't get called in to work again. Alright, till next time.

Day 7 Chapter 9 Book 1

I was able to finish up chapter 9 today as I had hoped to. Not too much to say about this chapter. There were some paragraphs that needed some attention and a few spelling errors including the name of a character that I'd been misspelling since I introduced him. I think there was only one instance where I had spelled it correct and that was the first time I had mentioned it. It was just a slight change of a letter, but I still think it's pretty amusing that I didn't realize it until this time through.

I did add in a few lines of character development for some of the soldiers in this chapter, just so it's evident that they are there and to add a bit of comic relief.

Anyways, I think I'll have some time to do chapter 10 on Saturday, hopefully I can fit in an hour or two tomorrow just so I can be sure to finish 10 on Saturday. It's a bit shorter than the chapters of late which have been 10 pages or more. So I shouldn't have a problem finishing it. Alright, I'll type back later.