I’m coming up to the halfway point on revisions. There are a couple of things I’m going back to; I have learned that if I need to think about something, I just flag it with a note and move on. Otherwise, it’s too easy to bog down. Better to keep moving forward and do all the easy stuff. I’ll end up coming back to my flagged scenes, and then doing a final check to make sure I got everything.
Revision uses different mental muscles. There are all those threads to keep track of for continuity. I’m not really changing anything, just deepening, so continuity won’t be much of an issue, but I still have to watch what I’m doing. It’s easy to start making mistakes with this kind of work, so I take lots of breaks and I stop when my brain is tired. And Word’s track changes feature can be a life-saver. You can go back and reject a change if it’s screwed up and do it over.
Onward!
You’re making great progress. Keep it up. 🙂 I’ve hit the halfway point on the book as of today. Still so much more to go. Figured out yesterday that several of the chapters were out of order. (In my outline.) I’m trying to work around them without having to go back and rewrite the outline. Makes for fun times.
Heh. The right order of events can fool you. Congrats on being halfway!
I am working my way through revising. I want to finish so I can go to the movies without guilt this weekend. ; )