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Typo picking
May. 6th, 2011 08:34 amI'm through the rewrite of the fairy tale, and have posted my beta post for myself. I find that for some reason it is a lot easier to proof-read a piece when I read it from a website. I'm about two-thirds done and I hate that I sent this thing to people to actually READ before it got proofed. As always, the typos and word repetition and incomplete thoughts from the first draft were abysmal and embarrassing. I much prefer to have people do their first read from a more polished piece. Oh, well. I'm cleaning it up, though.
And I am very happy with it! That is such a relief. I have never just *read* it. It is too long, and I've been focused on writing and rewriting and adding. Even though I haven't been able to do this in one sitting, it really is just reading. I tap in a spelling change here and there, do really minor edits for the word repetition, but in general this is just a really nice chance to read it.
And the seks is scorching, if I do say so myself. You know. And I'm happy about how I filled in some of the major plot problems from the first draft, like making Jack's interest in Daniel make more sense, and trying to create "an arc" for the Beast.
There's stuff missing here, and if I were ever to do what Zats has suggested and try to file off the serial numbers and turn this into a real novel, it would be in no way complete yet. But for something that I need to be ready to post in a couple of weeks, and that I really have very little time left to work on, I'm pretty damned happy with it.
Meanwhile, I have been listening to my John Denver greatest hits album that I picked up at Costco a couple of months ago, and I may commit song fic again. What is it with me and John Devner songs?
And I am very happy with it! That is such a relief. I have never just *read* it. It is too long, and I've been focused on writing and rewriting and adding. Even though I haven't been able to do this in one sitting, it really is just reading. I tap in a spelling change here and there, do really minor edits for the word repetition, but in general this is just a really nice chance to read it.
And the seks is scorching, if I do say so myself. You know. And I'm happy about how I filled in some of the major plot problems from the first draft, like making Jack's interest in Daniel make more sense, and trying to create "an arc" for the Beast.
There's stuff missing here, and if I were ever to do what Zats has suggested and try to file off the serial numbers and turn this into a real novel, it would be in no way complete yet. But for something that I need to be ready to post in a couple of weeks, and that I really have very little time left to work on, I'm pretty damned happy with it.
Meanwhile, I have been listening to my John Denver greatest hits album that I picked up at Costco a couple of months ago, and I may commit song fic again. What is it with me and John Devner songs?
