Before I continue, I should point out that I recognize three levels of editing severity:
- scalpel
- hatchet
- chain saw
This one fell into “scalpel” territory — I found things that needed fixing or tweaking, move a sentence, that sort of thing. Nothing major. Thinking maybe it was still too fresh, I went through the entire thing backwards. This worked very well for me when editing Xenocide, so I expected good things to come of the reverse pass.
I think I found two typos in 17,000 words. So far so scary.
Figuring I could just get embarrassed by a beta reader, I exported a MOBI and copied it into my Kindle to look over. Then I started finding things.
Meanwhile, the person I really wanted to beta-read this — Craig WF Smith — volunteered. W00T! So now it’s off to beta, and I’m looking forward to the results.
Now I need to bang out a #FridayFlash… like really quick.
2 comments:
Was a pleasure to volunteer. Only have a few pages left to go. Like you only found a few typos, but have a few comments on where things might need to be tweaked a bit.
Oh good — thanks much & looking forward to seeing your comments!
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