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Home > "Dark Moon", Editing, Novels, Projects, The Writing Process > Last Night’s Brutal Editing Session

Last Night’s Brutal Editing Session

October 24, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment Go to comments

Preparing chapter 9 for the manuscript last night was absolutely brutal. I feel like the chapter literally kicked my ass.

There were so many things that simply did not sound right once I let the TTS start reading it back to me.  And here I thought I had done a good job with it during FINAL edits. Boy was I wrong.

There were at least three sections that underwent major rewrites to smooth out the kinks and countless little tweaks made.  Another 126 words were cut in total.  I literally felt exhausted by the end of it all.

Now I want to revisit the chapter again tonight before officially putting it to bed. Hopefully, when I go through it again, I will feel much better about it.

Editing is sometimes so frustrating.  Especially when something has been edited so much that you expect it to be done.

Categories: "Dark Moon", Editing, Novels, Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Chapter 9, Good Job, Kinks, Manuscript, Many Things, Session 9, Tweaks
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