Way back in 2018, I wrote a post sharing the editing process I intended to use for the novel I was revising at the time (which was shelved shortly afterward and has yet to see the light of day). That was the last project I made editing notes on in print (at least for an early draft), so I revisited that post when I decided to work on Lightning in print. Since it’s been so long, I’ve grown so much, and I’ve seen that original process not work, I ended up making some significant changes from that process to this one.
Now that I’m further through the process and can say what actually worked and what didn’t (vs. the 2018 post which I wrote at the beginning of the process, before it was really tested), here are some of my observations from how this modified editing process worked for Lightning.
A Quick Recap
If you want to see an in-depth look at how I planned to edit The Heart of the Baenor (that unpublished 2018 novel), jumping back to that original post is your best bet. But here’s a quick overview, for those who don’t care to see the full failed version and just want an idea of how this new process compares.
In 2018, I had a color-coded system for editing notes. It was largely focused on Continue reading “Revisiting My (Self-)Editing Process”