"Writing lets others see the smoke from the forest fires of our minds. Editing lets them see the fire through the smoke," a friend of mine said a few weeks ago, right before the cross-country move. It's true, and indispensable, but I never imagined that the joy that I found in writing and planning and crafting would make up less than 5% of the process. It's tedious and very time-consuming, but ultimately worth it. So, aside from a brief break to hop on here and reflect on this, I've been spending today focused on the (fingers crossed) final edit of the book, readying it for the April release. The picture here is what the actual pages that I'm working from look like. The biggest challenge is to not make errors as I enter the corrections (typos and so forth), which is a paranoid and daunting undertaking. On the plus side, it feels good to have such a lean, mean manuscript, especially when I look back at the previous drafts. I really want everyone's introduction to Forsaken Realm to be the smoothest reading process possible, so what else matters?
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