Happy Tuesday, Aledan Merfolk! I’ve had a whirlwind couple of weeks working on Speak the Ocean, and I’m happy to say that I finished Draft Four at lunch! Draft Four was by far the most difficult, because it included looking for all those little problem words I overuse while writing. Guess what my biggest problem word is? Look. Mostly in the context of “[character] looks [emotion]”, which I had to ruthlessly delete and show instead. And despite the extra description, I still managed to delete a ton of extra words. Plus, you know, it reads smoother now.
It took me three days to find and fix all the instances of “look”. There were 384 of them in a 366 page book. I’m also quite pleased that I got to use “ogle” in place of one of those looks. What a fun word.
So now StO is off with the final round of CP’s, and I have a couple weeks to breathe. I have to write the synopsis and query, of course, and I have a couple of CP projects to critique, but I think it’s high time I headed back to the mountains to work on Fie Eoin. I miss home <3
Congrats! ^_^
Thank you!
I have a list of repetitive words I search and destroy at some point during edits. The words start looking funny after a while. Like I see them so many times they lose meaning. It’s weird.
Congrats on finishing! WOOO!
Oh yeah, “laugh” was the final word I searched for, and by that point my brain was so melted that it didn’t even look like a word anymore 😛
woohoo! congrats on finishing the draft! major accomplishment. 🙂
Thanks! I’m so close to querying I can taste it 😀
ooh! then the fun really beings. good luck!