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.

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.

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

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...

More slaving away at editing Kepler Falling

I'm about halfway through editing Kepler Falling.  This is the fourth draft.  There are more to come.  This project won't rest until I'm old and gray.  Wait, I'm both!

Ugh.

Damned to the dogs of editing....

I spent the past several weeks editing the novella Ganbaatar and Nordic Sun.  Both manuscripts are done.  They need to be critiqued.  That will happen in the coming year.  This has become the season of revision/editing.  I'm currently working on Kepler Falling.  I'm editing that manuscript.  I don't know when I'll take to WUTA for critiques, though.

Kepler Falling should take me through May 2016.  That's a long time to revise/edit.  I'll hate myself by then.  Ugh.

New Years 2016 writing projects...

I've spent the past month writing.  I talked to my brother in Columbia, MO.  He's getting back to work in his sci-fi/noir detective novel.  He's only got it halfway revised.  He needs to write the rest.  I hope it's better than his first revision.  The technical aspects were great.  He's awesome with his descriptions and settings.  But I wanted to kill his characters.  They had little redeeming value.  Hopefully, that changed, lol...

I've been working on the rough draft of a new story.  It's speculative fiction.  Hard speculative fiction.  It's been a challenge to write.  I hope I can get 50,000 words out of it.  Right now, I'm at 30,000 words.  In involves a Scandinavian interstellar expedition to a world some 5,000 light years away.

The second story I outlined is a steampunk story set in South Africa at the time of the second Boer War.  I just wrote the beginning of it.  I'd like to get back to it when I get the speculative fiction novel done sometime this spring.  I also rewrote a satire/horror story piece that had one a prize in an anthology years ago.  Unfortunately, I lost the original work and had to rewrite it...

Blake