Editing Go Round

Second go-round with my editor, Erica Orloff.  I think I love the rewrite. I've been rewriting for days but it fits together, is so much tighter - and I have her to thank. Honestly, she is so very good at her job. She has the instinct to make things work the way they should. This has been one of the best things I've ever done. It's so hard - I'm mentally and emotionally exhausted - and that's just the first 50 pages!!! What a grueling process...

I'm almost finished implementing all of her suggestions. I think I've gotten so involved that sometimes I think something is there that has maybe been moved or changed and I'm just not reading it objectively. It becomes a blur and you think it's a very different thing at this point. I've also sent "Tiger" and "Lion" to my friend, Keitha - an editor in New Zealand and she's beginning to take me through the same process! Yowsers, that's a stretch. Journey is a two-part novel of over 1000 pages. 50 pages for CS&I is hard enough...


Time for a hot tub and a glass of wine...