White Raven progress 22nd June

Today’s progress:

Project: White Raven draft two

New words: 4,040

Total words: 4,040

Goal: 100k

Writing:

I love editing.

Seriously, it’s when I have the most fun with writing.  At this stage, I know how the story goes, and I get to put in foreshadowing and lots of fun stuff.  I wish that I could get to the same stage by outlining first, but as of yet, I seem to need to write that exploratory first draft first.  I do plan on giving the snowflake method a good go for the next novel, perhaps.

So, first chapter is edited and off to a few betas.  Who will hopefully not want to destroy it and/or be bored to death by it.  I’m certain that there are things that I’ve missed in editing, which is why I love my betas – they always find the blindingly obvious mistakes that I’m too close to see.

Seriously, good beta readers are worth their weight in platinum.  I am so thankful that I’ve found a good group of people, and hope that I can return the favour for them in kind.

Real life:

Cleaned the house, did laundry and hung it out, peering dubiously at it every once in a while wondering if it wil get dry on an overcast day.

Now I need to do some review and beta reading.  Have I mentioned lately that I love that my life revolves around words?  As much as sometimes miss working in science, I wouldn’t choose to be doing anything else but living in the word mines full time these days.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.