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Another installment in the exciting life of a writer.
The latest delay on working on A MAGIC OF DAWN is having to read the typeset galleys of A MAGIC OF NIGHTFALL, which arrived on 11/25 and had to be back to DAW by 12/5 to be sent off to production -- a tight schedule, but I managed it. Having now read the book at least a dozen times now, it seems, I must say that I still think it reads well. However, I'm also certain that I'm nearly the world's worst proofreader for the book, since I'll happily supply a missing word. I know what's supposed to be there. Several times I caught myself skimming rather than really reading.
Still, I caught several errors, including one minor plot glitch which I managed to fix without too much modification of the text. I'd bet that Marsha Jones, who's doing the proofing at DAW, caught far more errors than me, however: she's a good, close reader, and the book's 'newer' to her.
And I've gone back now (finally, and again) to A MAGIC OF DAWN. Happily, I just passed the 30,000 words mark this morning; unhappily, that means I still have well over 100,000 words to go, since I suspect the draft will come in between 160,000 and 175,000 words.
I need to really press on DAWN -- I should be farther along by now, but other projects (mostly, writing a story for WILD CARDS that was novella length) have interfered...
*sigh* Can't change that, though (and wouldn't want to). Onward!
The latest delay on working on A MAGIC OF DAWN is having to read the typeset galleys of A MAGIC OF NIGHTFALL, which arrived on 11/25 and had to be back to DAW by 12/5 to be sent off to production -- a tight schedule, but I managed it. Having now read the book at least a dozen times now, it seems, I must say that I still think it reads well. However, I'm also certain that I'm nearly the world's worst proofreader for the book, since I'll happily supply a missing word. I know what's supposed to be there. Several times I caught myself skimming rather than really reading.
Still, I caught several errors, including one minor plot glitch which I managed to fix without too much modification of the text. I'd bet that Marsha Jones, who's doing the proofing at DAW, caught far more errors than me, however: she's a good, close reader, and the book's 'newer' to her.
And I've gone back now (finally, and again) to A MAGIC OF DAWN. Happily, I just passed the 30,000 words mark this morning; unhappily, that means I still have well over 100,000 words to go, since I suspect the draft will come in between 160,000 and 175,000 words.
I need to really press on DAWN -- I should be farther along by now, but other projects (mostly, writing a story for WILD CARDS that was novella length) have interfered...
*sigh* Can't change that, though (and wouldn't want to). Onward!