Does it still count as a first if you haven't filled in holes, but are going through and editing? I've always wondered that. I suppose it has to, because it's not in a completed form at all... I'm still working on that.
My edits are nowhere as extensive as Mr. Orwell's up there, but I've been organizing my manuscript so that it's at least fit to be seen by a good friend of mine, and that has brought some deep edits about, especially to the opening chapters. Little moments that I wrote when I first started this thing, that were not quite in character, or that just didn't feel as good as the rest of the writing.
Isabelle reminded me that some distance can be a great thing when it comes to editing, and she's been proven absolutely right. The last time I tried to edit the first chapters I'd been looking at them so much that I didn't know what to do with them at all. Now I'm got a lot more room to pick them apart as they should be, which should help me with some of those gaps I have left anyhow.
Also... the blog has had a bit of a facelift, thanks to some help from thecutestblogontheblock.com. Trying to extend the summer, maybe? Maybe...
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