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Okay, I’m going to admit it in public. I love editing. Don’t hate me
and please don’t throw things at me. I do. It’s one of my favorite
parts of the writing process.
I’m pushing through a first draft at the moment. And when I say pushing,
that’s what I mean. I force myself to get up and write the scenes my
characters are begging me to put down on paper. I don’t know why it’s
not working, but it just isn’t. It’s hard. There is nothing
fun about it this particular time around. But I persevere because I
know when I get to the end I’ll know exactly what happened and where
the villain came from and how my hero and heroine came to their “happy ever after“.
Once that’s done I can go back and fill in the missing red herrings
for the suspense portion of the story and beef up the romance. It’s
easy because I know what I want to accomplish. It wasn’t always that
way. When I wrote my first books it was the original draft that revved
my engine. Plodding back through it seemed like such drudgery. But I
think it was because I edited as I went. I don’t do that anymore.
This week I’m expecting edits for “Shadows of Fire“, my May 2009 release from Liquid Silver Books. (Edits for “Divine Deception” are completed and the book is just waiting for release.) I can’t wait. Part of it is that I haven’t really looked at this book since I signed the contract last August. I love these characters. Editing gives me the opportunity to revisit them and fall in love with these vampires all over again.
Of course my editor will ask me to “tighten this” or “add more
here”. I don’t mind. It’s a challenge to make my writing the best it
can be. I love it. I can’t help it. I do.
Of course it’s probably the thrill of knowing my story is another
step closer to publication. And only the thrill of getting emails from
my readers beats release day.
So bring on those edits … I’m ready!
4:30 PM
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