Yesterday I spent some time diving into the edits of NIGHTCRAFT MOTHER…it was both better and worse than I expected. Better, in the sense that I’m already totally into the story, it’s moving in my head, I know the things I want to change, and am figuring out how to change them. Worse, in the sense that: oh man, I suck. Am I serious? Did I *write* that???
I guess the good news is, I can already tell that I’m a better writer than I was just a few months ago, when I last had my hands in this manuscript. (All this practice must be good for something…) And far better than I was when I wrote the earliest parts of the book a few years ago. (This continues to bolster my theory that I should have just rewritten this stupid book from scratch…hey, I know how to do that.) The new stuff in here, like the Prologue, are quite clean. The older stuff…yech.
So I got through the Prologue, and the first scene in chapter 1. But I’m still going to have to go through at least chapter 1 all over again, looking at pacing, stylistic things, etc–I’m sort of concentrating on plot and character consistency at the moment, and the Zombies’ comments. Hard to think on all those different levels at once.
And now that I’m all jazzed up about this…I’m leaving town (yay Jaycon!) for a few days without my computer. (Probably…) Oh well! I shall return. Either way, this work will get done by my June 30 deadline. It will. Because I said so.