The Editing Process: Breakthrough

I finally had a breakthrough with my writing. I managed to finally get passed the second lesson and I'm onto the 3rd. This one should take me too long but when I finally have the time to finish them up I will.

So far, I have a few scenes that will probably need to be deleted, reworked, or merged with another scene. There are currently 72-ish scenes for this novel, making is a monster but I'm going to work on fixing it.

This will be my last editing update post for awhile since NaNoWriMo starts. I'll be doing writing update posts until I finish. If I manage to finish all of my projects, then I'll continue to edit and hopefully finish by the end of December.

The Editing Process: My Ending Sucks

Does editing ever make you want to rip your hair out? Because that's what I'm feeling this week. I'm still on lesson two of How To Revise Your Novel. This novel is really long and I feel bad for the people who wrote an even longer novel.

Basically, I've come to the conclusion that the ending part of this novel sucks and that it's going to need a massive overhaul. Well, the whole novel needs an overhaul but the ending needs one especially. It's awful. The ending shouldn't be awful. I think I have too many fillers and info dump because I was rushing to get this over with.

This is probably another reason why I don't actually want to publish this novel, Dowsers. I don't think I had much inspiration writing it. Hopefully the editing will go well. I plan on posting the first chapter by 217 on Wattpad.

The Editing Process: Going By Slowly

I'm getting a little frustrated this week. Lesson two of How To Revise You Novel is taking me forever. I think it's my novel itself. I'm getting bored with it already. I just want to get to the part where I re-plot everything. This story needs a massive overhaul.

I'm almost done though. After this I have several more lessons before I get to the overhaul but hopefully it will get better. I still have to fix the broken plot and whatever the other chapters have. So much work. I have to keep at it because I have to finish it by the end of the year. Then I have to start working on my other story that is halfway through the Holly Lisle class.

But in order to finish it, I'm going to have to find my plot cards that I made...I cant remember where I put them.

I absolutely need to finish Lesson Two by Saturday. I have to.

A Month of Correcting Things

Now that February is coming to a close, it's time to get back into editing. I hate to admit that I hardly touched my manuscript in a few weeks - shame on me. So, it's going to be my main focus for the month. I've been working on my retelling of a fairy tale story and it's not even close to being done so I'll continue working on that in March. It shouldn't take me too long...I hope. It's getting pretty lengthy.

So, for the next month, all my posts will be about editing and the process I'm going through. I'm actually going to start that process today after I'm doing writing my chapter. I've been using Holly Lisle's How To Revise Your Novel class because, while it is a long process, I noticed that my manuscript turns out far better than I anticipated it to be. So, I'm going to stick to it.

Thankfully, this week is my Spring Break from school. I'll have plenty of time to catch up since I only have six lessons to start with. I just need to find the best solution to doing the worksheets since printing them isn't an option right now.

Now with that said, off to finish up some writing and start working on my editing. There is a lot that I need to finish by the time March ends.