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Big, long slog to dial back Shaifennen's dialect and patter.  Aggravating but necessary.  On the up-side, it's letting me catch a number of other small errors as I go through it again.

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Big, long slog to dial back Shaifennen's dialect and patter.  Aggravating but necessary.  On the up-side, it's letting me catch a number of other small errors as I go through it again.

Never give up.  Never surrender PG!

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Couldn't quit if I wanted to.  Those stories want out.  ;)

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Will be off-line for quite a while. My 2nd edit came through on Book I. Ellen says, "The book is amazing; your characterizations are amazing, and, what is most exciting to me, the last fifty pages are unputdownable." And also she says, "...an extremely deep edit, which is a good thing and a compliment to you."

I take that to mean, now we will make the first 250 pages as unputdownable as the last fifty! Ha! Although I haven't yet opened the actual document she's warned me it will be exhaustive. She did in-line suggestions and track changes for the house style as well as the editing letter.

Every step will be filled with learning opportunities. I can not wait!

Book II will have to sit. An accompanying short story will have to percolate without key strokes, as will blogging. In addition, the to-be-read list and reviews will go on hold.

*fading into the internet with a smile all*
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Will be off-line for quite a while. My 2nd edit came through on Book I. Ellen says, "The book is amazing; your characterizations are amazing, and, what is most exciting to me, the last fifty pages are unputdownable." And also she says, "...an extremely deep edit, which is a good thing and a compliment to you."

I take that to mean, now we will make the first 250 pages as unputdownable as the last fifty! Ha! Although I haven't yet opened the actual document she's warned me it will be exhaustive. She did in-line suggestions and track changes for the house style as well as the editing letter.

Every step will be filled with learning opportunities. I can not wait!

Book II will have to sit. An accompanying short story will have to percolate without key strokes, as will blogging. In addition, the to-be-read list and reviews will go on hold.

*fading into the internet with a smile all*

Way to go Meg_!  Best of luck, that edit sounds exhausting.



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Line edits completed tonight. Now the real work begins...

And thank you DK.
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Congrats Meg and best of luck.

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Chucking through the comment lists for the easy fixes while contemplating the more complex ones.

Can't leave the other manuscript dangling though. I'm finding time to revise both. Added an evening short session to manage time.
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Editing the crap out of stuff. Didn't want to see the parade any way...  Will probably be at it all weekend. Still working on easy stuff and trying to get my head around alternatives for the hard stuff.
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