Hello everyone. There will be no science Saturday today. I put all my available time this week into Deathless, so all three of the posts I had scheduled for this week got put on hold. Expect some cool stuff next week though. Speaking of Deathless though, I have some big news: It’s finished. Like, completely …
Here’s an update on my progress towards draft III of Deathless. Since I finished my reread of Draft II, I’ve been slowly making the corrections and improvements that I think the book needs. A little insider information that some of you might find interesting: Since I found that the majority of the book (everything except the beginning) …
So I’ve finished my proofreading of Deathless draft 2, and I’m pleasantly surprised at what I’ve found. It’s not terrible. In fact, it’s pretty good. That might seem a little underwhelming, but some of you might remember the result of my reread of the first draft. t looked something like this: I made much fewer annotations …
Today, I picked up Deathless again for the first time since I finished draft 2. I’ve let it sit long enough, and it’s time to approach it again with a fresh perspective. The first step of this process is to print out the draft. This is the fun part: There it is in its entirety. …
Throughout the long process of this first round of revisions, I’ve learned a lot about myself as a writer. Unfortunately, one of those things is that I seem to have no idea how to properly use commas. Regular readers of this blog are already well aware of this, I’m sure. Consider the following example from …
Editing update: I’ve finally finished my first readthrough of my book. Here’s What it looks like. Reading it all the way through was a more difficult task than I anticipated. The huge number of mistakes and areas of bad writing don’t make for smooth reading, especially when I have to stop each time I find …