It’s April as I write.
I need to have my novel finished by September, all edits.
I’ve got a twelve step edit process, most of which seems to be “Procrastinate wildly.” I love writing, and truly despise editing – even though I’m fairly good at it. All you really need to be a good editor is a Twitter account and a resolution to stay under the old 120 character count, no matter what the new character limit may be. You’ll break it, but there you go. Just like your plans for writing.
The MOST important is going to be your structure edit (no worries, I’m planning on a non-fiction how-to of how to edit your novel and impress agents, editors, critics and your Grandmother too).
After that will be a POV edit, also called “Head hoping” by most writers. I’ll not mention that a lot of writers on Twitter need a spell check (it’s… hopping, not hoping)!
There’s several more edits, but the single most important one is the structural edit. Then there’s a verb edit, where you go through and replace less than inspiring verbs (run) with more dramatic ones (race, dash, etc).
Add to this a nice round of promotion (Evernote is wonderful) and lots and lots and lots of website editing, including a landing page for the series, an author landing page and a landing page for EVERY BOOK in the series.
That probably sounds ridiculously busy if you don’t have a writer’s website, but actually it’s about 20 minutes of work and simply applying a separate theme more oriented to the landing page than a web site.
Easy, but it drives WordPress nuts.
Okay, let me go back to work. Sadly, you won’t notice most of this.
