that no coalition of commas has found me and had me executed for crimes against grammar.

I'm horrible at commas and feel terrible for putting my poor editor through this!! On the upside, the easy edits are done, didn't even fuss about killing two or three little darlings - mostly because I get to keep my biggest darlings. now for the hard stuff... this could take a few days but it'll be fun! Overall though - I think I only found one suggestion I disagree with - but the fact that it's there at all means I need a little clarification a few paragraphs above it and then, I don't think it will be a suggestion anymore. I'm off to find a name and then I'm going to play with my kids for a while.

Tags: editing, hardwired humanity, the process
Current Mood: accomplished

and Hubster's already found four things that need fixing. This is going to be a LONG process... he's not even near the parts where the military stuff comes into play. I'm going to get pounded when he gets there... I see it now...

joyful.

On the upside - he's awesome at picking up redundancies and repetitions that might otherwise weaken the story. I'm not really complaining. Not really.  

Tags: editing

 Ok. so I'm weird. Really weird... the Labrynth is stuck in my head. Hubs and I talked last night about Evo. He's the man I ask about explosives and weaponry in my fiction. He was a Marine once upon a time (But I swear that's not why I married him!). Even without having read it yet - he's made some very good points about a few things. Especially my climactic scene. So, today, i am rewriting again. And doing a wee tiny bit of research. The goal is to tighten it up, fix a few things (with my three pages of notes), supersize the technology, and whip the ending into more of a big bang than it is.... It's a good thing he hasn't read it yet - he'd have half of it marked up in the red pen he uses. I'm still amazed that my paper print of Thosha has more of my notes than his!

Anyway - I'm feeling pretty revv'd up today. When Ideas hover on the edge of my brain like a stealth chopper loaded with wire guided tickers - that's a good thing. It means I'm doing something right. Though the ideas for Thosha are more like a triad of Goddess sitting on my shoulders and whispering in my ear....

OK - to work I go!

~S

"You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power? What power? The power of Voodoo. Hoodoo? You do? Do what? Remind me of the babe..."

Tags: editing, fiction
Current Mood: Inspired
Current Music: Dance Magic Dance.

Oh how I hate it :P But, it must be done. First major round of edits on Evolution of a Shadow are nearly finished. Hubster has actually promised to read it since I don't think I can get another pair of eyes on this 30k monster in my time constraints. So, my nerves are a little raw - I married the only man in the world who doesn't believe in patting their wife on the head and proclaiming everything they do to be good. He doesn't read much of my work, though he was the very first person to read the rough of my novel, Thosha-Tol and he liked it evenmore than domynoedid and that's saying something so, maybe if this project doesn't fly, I'll just hang my hat on Thosha and see where I go... But, Evo is one of those stories that has been in my head so long that coming back to it now, after a two year absence is like coming home. I know each player too well. I know each part of the mystery too well. It's hard to be objective on a story like that, where it feels like sliding back into your own skin to work on it. 

But, at least this first round is nearly done. If the project gets the official green-light, I'm sure I'll be fussing over it more but, I just need to get it as ready as I can first.

Tags: editing, fiction

I have this marvelously awesome friend named Pete. He's reading Strange Angels and seems to think I'll be offended if he tears it to shreds. Sweet of him to worry but I'm loving the fact that he is pointing out a few major issues no one else has caught. I didn't catch them and I darn well should have. Sometimes it makes me want to bang my head on the desk I've missed some dumb things but really - after so many years, so many revisions, two complete rewrites - as in every single word - things are bound to slip. Things I thought were there that I missed putting in. Things that I didn't think were there that I missed taking out. 

I have this other pretty awesome friend named Ezra. She read Strange Angels too and caught a whole bunch of Other Gaps in my tale. Ones that no one else caught and I want to bang my head on the wall cause I should have seen it myself. (She's a writer too and as such, not REALLY worried about my feelings so she picked pretty deep.)

So I guess what I really want to say is this:

Pete and Ez - you all just rock

~Sarah

Tags: crits, editing, strange angels, writing