Facebook flog - Feb 21 2014

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Link: Feb 21 2014, 14:02
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

I'm still working hard on the edits, so here is the bottom paragraphs of page 64 of the edits for the new Merry Gentry novel, A Shiver of Light -

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[tarawyn.livejournal.com]

It makes my head hurt how wrong that is.

You do your major overhauls first, because you're filling plotholes, tightening up or lengthening out story-arcs, and other things like that. Vast swathes of text, or at least little swards, are not going to be the same afterward. Fixing the typos in that arc that gets cut or that scene that gets rewritten is useless. Then you do your minor overhauls—rearranging paragraphs to flow better, overhauling your prose to sound nicer, etc., maybe changing character names to be more harmonious. I could maybe understand fixing up commas and such to elucidate what is clunky and what flows, but you're still not going over it with a fine-toothed comb until you've cleared up the seriously clunky bits. Only after it's all basically neat do you go for that final polish to catch typos and comma errors and the like.

These rewrites are a disgustingly transparent and badly-constructed lie. You don't have to be an illustrator to know that you don't start adding detailed scales to a dragon that's still made of guiding lines and geometric shapes.

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

Yes. This. So much. Why do the small edits if you end up deleting it in a bigger edit after the fact? (In the mythical world where she actually does both.)