This is mostly echoed from the Universes blog, so no use going there for more.<\/p>\n
Stage Three overlaps Stage Two, because–especially this time–there’s no reason to ignore 3rd level problems while reading aloud to someone from the computer screen (there is no print-out yet.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So if I find an entire paragraph that’s now redundant (a Stage Two problem) I just delete it,\u00a0 or a temporal-sequence problem,\u00a0 I mark that section in red and fix it when through reading, and if I find a typo (and boyoboy do I find typoes!)\u00a0 I fix it.\u00a0 Same with “infelicitous phrasing,”\u00a0 doubled doubled words, and so on.<\/p>\n
Every book *should* have (can easily have if you don’t have a submission deadline)\u00a0 at least three full length revisions: structural, constructional, surface polish.\u00a0 And also at least three readings: one of them voiced, out loud, two by readers with somewhat different ages\/backgrounds, etc.\u00a0 This time my original first-reader (Rancherfriend Ellen) can no longer read, because of severe macular degeneration, so I’ve been calling her up every day and reading a chapter or two to her, as I’ve finished that part’s stage two (or think I have.\u00a0 She was a superb first reader, and she notices even hearing the book that “you said that already last time–we don’t need that bit.”\u00a0\u00a0 This has been good for both of us.<\/p>\n
DRW (Readerfriend DavidW)\u00a0 is another first reader, and I’m about to go to R-, who has been busy with other things while I worked on it, and combines well as a stage 2 and stage 3 reader because he picks nits like nobody’s business as well as spotting deeper problems.\u00a0 He doesn’t read as fast anymore, though.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve also had another first-reader take sporadic looks at it, but she’s got a busy schedule otherwise: she edits, writes, and teaches workshops.<\/p>\n
I had wanted to be here two weeks ago, and would have been if not for the tooth problems and a few other complications in our lives, but I’m here now, and the book WILL go off to my agent this week (unless I croak.\u00a0 Always a consideration when over 75.)\u00a0\u00a0 The book is now sitting at 167, 273 words,\u00a0 and wandering up and down a few at every pass as I fill holes and trim off excess.\u00a0 Probably will go in to agent close to 170,000.<\/p>\n
Farrier comes today, in a couple of hours most likely, so this is just a quick update.<\/p>\n
Dedicated Paksworld readers (you never look at Universes blog…<G>)\u00a0\u00a0 This one has really stretched my abilities in managing complex sequential and tactical (in the military bits, of which there are quite a few)\u00a0 stuff.\u00a0 I’m happy with the outcomes, esp. young Gwenno Marrakai’s particular approaches to dealing with her enemies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Marrakai younger generation is able to show that they’re not quite “all one brew, and that a heady one.”\u00a0\u00a0 as was said of them years back.\u00a0\u00a0 Juris, the king’s best friend, and Gwenno, his younger sister, and Temris *her* younger sister (not to mention Aris, who was Prince Camwyn’s best friend) have–while I was ignoring them writing the two later Vatta books–grown into very individual people.\u00a0 Even the two youngest, though they’re not that prominent in this book.\u00a0\u00a0 (Well, you will meet Julyan and find out why he’s “different.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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