Imagine that you just bore a child. You raised it. You watched it grow. It matured and became something you were proud of. Beloved by you, in reality to others, it is a fowl mouthed little brat who likes to get its way and steal other kids lunch money on the playground. Once you wake up to this fact you wish that you could go back and make changes so that their outcome would be better.
Editing is like that. Once an author wakes up to the fact that their beloved creation is a frankenfurter they are able to go back and make the necessary changes to make their work better. Sometimes we need help seeing the reality. Sometimes reality decides to intrude on our fantasy and we realize we need to make changes.
A good friend of mine was kind enough to help proof-read and make some editing changes to the book I am about to publish. This has led me to decide on some rather drastic edits. I am considering making the book smaller than it is which means I need to go through and cut out parts and tidy up other places. This means being a bit brutal with my own work.
So begins my labor of love. However, there is a benefit in this. Not only will I be able to do another edit, but I will be able to shorten the story to make it easier to publish. This creates the opportunity to make this into a series. I had already planned for it to be a trilogy, but by editing in a certain way, I could make it into a series. All of this is definitely exciting.
Also, I have been fighting chest congestion for the last week. It pains me that I am not able to move this along faster than I have, but there are a lot of changes happening in my life right now. One of those is a change of job.
Soon I hope to have a web page for Seppen Lake, and for my other site called 'Self Published Reviews'. Check out the link to that blog here: Self Published Reviews . I will be adding more content as time goes on. Baby steps, as they say, and so it goes.
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