Editing Days....

[alfreda89]

Well, I spent many hours yesterday doing the first pass on proofing a manuscript for Book View Cafe ebook conversion.  I start reading tonight, confirming what I've done and watching for errors a spellchecker doesn't pick up.  (I was reading one of my favorite indulgences last night, Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews, and the errors jump out at me this time around.  Mostly missing words.  I don't think I would have missed them, but you never know.  No editor can catch everything, it's impossible.  We each have things our eye will correct.)

This am it's been another chapter of Spiral Path, the third Alfreda book.  Of course I don't know if I will keep the same places for chapter breaks, as I have been pruning with vigor, and inserting a couple of tiny but very useful scenes into the novel.  I have a major scene to write, at the end, and a minor but significant change to make closer to the end.  And the last few pages of falling action will change, because I suspect Allie gets to use Shaw's gift after all.  I hope to get this all done this week, but I start a class Thursday with rampant paranoia, and have no idea how much time it will demand.  Plus, unpacking/packing.

Later a client down south.  Maybe a second client, and some work for me.

No, self-employed people have to carve out their own vacation days.  And for me, it's been a long time since I've gotten any.  Memorial Day tends to be just another day, except for remembering those who serve and served.