Okay, I took a temporary detour.
I should’ve started the targeted edit on Trellis House yesterday, but I needed a break. Targeted editing is intense and demanding. On the edge of burnout, I needed a change.
So, I’m revising the novella Inverted Reversal, a key backstory for Book-7. I won’t be publishing it, so it’s a more casual task.
Except that the story is heartbreaking.
Be everwell.
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Another eclectic day where I refined the Brick Palace blueprint, reacquainted myself with Trellis House, and finished my examination of the issues plaguing Book-7.
I also wrote a lengthy message to myself in my journal about obsessing over adverbs. Yes, some need removed, but they also help a deep POV flow better.
A deep POV narrative is basically dialogue with the reader.
Be everwell.
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Nothing like an eclectic day after months of editing Book-5.
Yesterday, I setup my journal for April and at last made a diagram of the Brick Palace, which I should’ve done five years ago.
Using the diagram, I’m making fixes to the novella before its targeted edit. What a difference that’ll make, instead of the characters seemingly always in the same room.
I’m already happier.
Be everwell.
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The Book-5 targeted edit is COMPLETE.
It’s 13K shorter at 112K total. I now turn to Trellis House, the novella that’ll be published with it.
Trellis House (31K currently) is kind of a bonus, but it also serves to bridge the gap between Books 4/5 and Book-6.
Looking at the series as a whole, Book-6 is the build-up to the series’ climax. Next, I’ll publish Book-4, the midpoint.
Be everwell.
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ONE chapter left to edit in Book-5.
The editing project begun on January 1st draws to a close. My methods are tedious, but only cost me time, which I have (until I don’t, of course).
Too, done isn’t exactly Done. I will next perform a targeted edit on the novella, Trellis House, which is much shorter.
That, though, is later. First, there’s anticipating the end, and finishing.
Be everwell.
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TWO chapters left to edit in Book-5.
A chapter was completed because I planned ahead…
The march is done (for now).
It was an experience that will influence me in the future. When we experience life we value it more, and are more willing to fight for it.
As Riparia notes in Book-1, you can’t replace the past, you have to build a better tomorrow, and that requires vision.
Be everwell.
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