I’ve been working slowly towards finishing draft no 3 of book one (sorry for no update in a while). Now that’s complete, and I’m going to send it away to an editor. I’ve got some good leads on freelance editors that I might work well with. I suspect that the next weeks might be exciting.
Self-editing has been useful, but also laborious exercise; it’s so easy to read yourself blind in the text (adding in words that are not there). It’s also a challenge to get it right when the language you write in is a second language. To help me out, I used text-to-speech software. It helped tremendously in sniff out spelling mistakes and also to my surprise to highlight sentenced that were too long or did not flow well. Add on some format cleaning, and it’s a rather significant improvement over the last revision (hopefully). There is still a lot to improve with the editor, but I feel that the project is on the right path.
