Revision Weekend

Four chapters down, twelve more to go.

Now that it's the weekend, I'm able to spend more time going through Cherubim with the edits and revisions it needs. I just passed the halfway mark as far as chapter count goes, so I do have a little more to go in getting all of this reworked and up to as high of a standard as I can reasonably get it. It's going slowly, but it's getting there.

I'm hoping that by the end of this weekend I'm going to have a big chunk of it carved out and finished. Hopefully sometime next week, all 353 pages are going to be completed and I'll be able to start the line by line check just to be sure there aren't any errors I've missed. I really don't want to have to go back after everything is all said and done, and I'm working on the next project, and fix errors I missed after the fact like I've had to do with Nightwalker. That's just a pain is what that is.

As far as what I've got ahead of me, I have several big sections that I'm going to need to flesh out a bit more and revise to include things that have changed since I wrote it initially. I know one of the protagonists is going to have to be altered a bit more, which will change a few scenes going forward, but it needs to be done. The way the ending changed from what I initially had in mind necessitates going back and doing quite a bit of tweaking. Trying to get this character to be a little more sympathetic even if they are going against the main characters.

Good villains always have good reasons for doing what they do.

I've actually been adding a few lines here and there during the revisions to add to the world building. I have a lot of things in mind for it, because quite frankly, a world that is inhabited by supernatural creatures like vampires and shapeshifters, while on the whole it may be similar, and have similar events throughout history, its going to have some changes to it.

I don't want to go the White Wolf route and have vampires be behind the scenes responsible for all the bad stuff in the world, that just doesn't seem to fit with whats already been established anyways. But there are a few things in history, especially US history that can be altered slightly to have certain supernatural influences ADDED to them. Not being the cause of whatever portion of history I'm talking about, but being enhanced by it so to speak. Certain incidents may have actually been shortened by the presence of supernaturals, other things might have been made longer.

I'm going to have to go with a case by case basis in all of that. I know certain things in history and the modern world have/are going to change, just because certain characters are effected by it. I may leave it at that sort of thing. Don't know yet.

It's going good so far though.