crazywithkeyboard

Just finished up my latest round of editing this morning. One of the things I noticed, going through it this time, is that I used "seem" a lot. As in, "His skin seemed to have a bluish tinge to it." Why not just say, "His skin had a bluish tinge to it" -- unless there's some reason it's going to turn out to be something else later?

So I weeded out about 200 of those (or at least that's what it felt like). And I got rid of four more commas (though I put another one back in, for a net of 3), and fixed one typo. I'm trying to do a reading at speed now, to make sure the rough spots have been properly sanded down.

Then it goes back out to beta readers again, and I get to start on the synopses (a long one and a short one). Whee!

I'm also thinking of submitting the story to the Gather.com First Chapters contest. Though they say they are more interested in "general fiction," and therefore might not want a piece of sci-fi-space-pirate-fluff.

Labels: Gather contest, NaNo Editing