Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Editing/revision/retyping.....

I'm currently retyping Nordic Sun - Epsilon, 3rd Draft.  This will take a while to finish.  The best advice I got was to retype your second or third draft as far as editing/revisions go.  I look forward to be done with it by mid April 2016.

This year will be focused on reediting/revision/retyping.  I'm not going to write anything original.  I do have plans for a fifth novella.  It will be a steampunk manuscript set during the Boer War.  I probably won't start rewriting until the end of the 2016...

Such is life.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Reorganizing my reading and editing

I reorganized my reading and editing on a weekly basis.  Here's my reading:


Reading:

Sunday:
Fiction:
Analog Magazine - 35 pages.

Monday:
Fiction:
WUTA Big Books Manuscript - 50 pages.

Tuesday:
Fiction:
WUTA Big Books Manuscript - 50 pages

Thursday:
Nonfiction:
Military History - 50 pages.

Friday:
Fiction:
Speculative Fiction - 50 pages.

Saturday:
Fiction:
Speculative Fiction - 50 pages.


Here's my editing/revising/retyping:

Editing:

Monday:
Retyping:
Nordic Sun - 6 pages.

Tuesday:
Retyping:
Nordic Sun - 6 pages.

Wednesday:
Editing:
Revise and edit current WUTA piece brought for critique on Tuesday evening.

Thursday:
Retyping:
Nordic Sun - 6 pages.

This doesn't include blog updates.  Those I try to do on Thursday/Sunday evenings.

Sunday, February 7, 2016

4th Kepler Falling draft done...

I spent this morning finishing my 4th Kepler Falling draft.  I now start my retyping my 3rd draft of Nordic Sun.  I've been told the best way to reedit is to rewrite your rough draft word for word when doing the second or third draft.  Seems like a lot of work.  It helps with the editing and revising...

Blake

Saturday, February 6, 2016

All I do is edit and revise...

I'm still working on the fourth draft of Kepler Falling.  The revising/edit never seems to end.  Once I've tackled this project, I have rewrites of Ganbaatar and Nordic Sun to do.  That will take several months.

I'm at a loss whether to start the rough draft of Johannesburg Passage.  I think this is fated to be another novella.  I'm not sure.  The way I've laid things out on the character index and plot outline, that's the way it's looking.  I could write 250 words/per day/4 days per week.  That would generate a 1,000 words a week.

If it's going to be a novella.  Fine.  I can live that.  I don't have my hopes up for a steampunk novel rough draft...