The joy of editing, currently thickening up whole sections of the first book.
Thickening up? Well sometimes you have half sentences, or just not enough information. The way to fix it is to rewrite whole sections. Or move things around. And that is the fun stuff about writing.
Chapter one has six hundred more words now. That is about two pages for those who keep count. The flow is better and what should be there now is there.
There is a lot of work still I need to go through everything I have written and that is over 130k words. And make sure all the things are smoothened out. The emotions are right, the characters make sense, that the characters do and know things that you expect from them.
Yes, writing is a lot of work. It isn’t just getting an idea down; it is a lot more. There is also this part of the job. And even in the end a published book still will have at least one small fault or error. It will happen.
If you ever get to writing your own book, you’ll spend a lot of time in editing too. It is just what is required. And part of the fun.
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