It's been a few days, but I have managed to actually get some work done in spite of a minor injury that took me out of things for a few days. Editing from the prologue all the way through Chapter Four of Cherubim is now complete. Only twenty-eight more to go.
I actually somewhat enjoy this part of the process. Not the going line by line to make sure that there aren't words there that aren't supposed to be. It's actually kind of aggravating how often all the spelling and grammar checks I use will skip over a word that is spelled correctly, but isn't the one that is supposed to be there. Quite often the S from she gets removed or just not put there in the first place, when it's supposed to have been there, and it gets a pass because it's a technically correctly spelled word.
Really hammers in the point of going line by line in a manuscript to check for those sorts of things.
Plus, when I read everything back, it gives me the opportunity to change a word here and there, remove or alter phrasing I've used, and even to completely delete or add whole paragraphs to flesh things out or make them more concise.
This is actually an important part of the whole process. Reading everything back gives me the opportunity to make sure how a passage reads, is how I intended it to read when I wrote it. Often enough I find a spot or two that while I may have known what I meant when I was writing it, it wasn't really clear about what the intent was to someone reading it who isn't inside my deranged imagination. So I have to go back and make sure anyone else reading it is going to be able to understand what I was going for.
That's the theory anyway.
It is moving along smoothly though, and at a good enough pace for me to be satisfied with my progress in this phase. I figure it I can go through 2-3 chapters a day, and I may have to make sure I limit myself to that just to give my poor addled brain a rest, I should make pretty good time getting through this phase of the writing process.
On another note, the next book that I initially had in mind, a story that when I was still writing everything down in notebooks went next, may have to wait a little while before I can get to it. As is usual for me, when I let my mind wander a little bit the other day, a few random scenes popped into my head and planted the seeds of another story that will actually do a lot of world building, while at the same time move the overarching story forward in a bit of a different direction.
So, as I've got it planned out right now we've got Nightwalker and Flavius' arrival (kind of setting up the whole scene so to speak), then Cherubim and which is planting a lot of plot seeds. The next one was supposed to involve a bit of history coming back to haunt the Supernatural community, and take place outside of Los Angeles (which may or may not spawn its own spinoff trilogy, haven't decided yet). That story is what was supposed to go next in the series. It's not going to anymore. That will probably be Number 4
In its place, I think I'm going to write something that I haven't actually all plotted out years ago and add a bit of a backstory to why certain things in the world are the way they are. Plus introduce a character a little early for a one shot before they are fully introduced some time later. I have a tentative title in mind, just not sure if I'm going to keep it or not. We'll see how it goes.
For now, still got lots of work on Cherubim to go through. Yay me.
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