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Just finished editing Canto 18, the Battle of the Celebrant. (Still skipping Canto 7.) I'm up to page 247 of 438. Down to 673 Grammarly issues to review. I made an overly subtle event much easier to notice, but still left it ambiguous, which I think will increase the enjoyment of this last Canto.

Realized my chapter headings are out of whack with the new chapter layout. That will take about an hour to fix when I get done with this round of editing.

Then I'm going to print and bind another book copy.
 
I'm re-writing a portion of Canto 7 now. A character related a story in condensed form. I had a small amount of dialogue, most was just 3rd person summarizing of the story she told."

I'm expanding the story a bit, but only to support changing the story to her telling it in dialogue. It makes her story more dramatic that way. I'm liking the changes so far! Then I'll run this Canto through the editing process and declare victory! (At least until I learn new "how to write better" lessons and want to change things.)
 
Finished rewriting Canto 7. Need to proofread it and make a small change to Canto 19, as the changes introduced a small inconsistency there.

As soon as I do that, I'll print out a copy and give it another read through, this time on paper. For some reason, I find some errors better on paper than I can on the computer!

I'll fix those and print another copy on the good paper and hand-bind it into a book.
 
I've made a print copy and have been going through it. I've found some small mistakes, some layout, some grammar, some wordsmithing opportunities, and a small story inconsistency, which will be easily fixed. I'm up to page 82 of 440.

I don't know why some things are more easily found in a print version, but they are. My wife says the same thing.
 
I'm up to page 192 so far. It's 10pm and I've got a couple more hours of editing before bedtime. I may make it halfway thru the book tonight!

Thankfully, I'm not finding all that much wrong. (But enough to make it worthwhile to do, though!)
 
Kiredor said:
Elrond and the Blue Wizards, the latest chapter - Ch 5: Shadows of the South - has now been posted. This may be my last foray into the story as it doesn't seem to be holding much interest with the members.
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I've been swamped with school, holiday family gatherings, and my own big push to get my book ready to print and bind.

I promise I'll get to it this winter or spring!
 
Paper-edited thru page 393 of 440. I'm up to Appendix D.

I'm making the changes in the book text to give myself a break, then I'll tackle the rest of the paper-editing pages, all 47 of them.

I *might* finish this edit by new year's day. If not, certainly by the end of the 2nd.
 
Just finished the editing! Yeah! Hooray!

Now I need to put it back into Adobe InDesign, pop the illustrations and asterisms back in, lay it out, print it out and bind a few copies!

The extra work was worth it. I caught some small inconsistencies that would have caused problems in other books in the series, some embarrassing typos, a pair of duplicated paragraphs (I copied them to make major alterations to the copy and forgot to delete the originals). As an added plus, I tightened up the language AND made some key scenes much more vivid!
 
All but 6 files have been loaded into Adobe InDesign. When that's done, I'll have a draft layout to work with. Some of the chapters have changed and a few no longer have an even number of pages. (It's important if you want each chapter starts on the right side of a page spread.) So I may have to remove some illustration page place holders, or add some.

Should have the book properly laid out by the end of the weekend, if not before.
 
Kiredor said:
it doesn't seem to be holding much interest with the members.
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It has my interest, my friend. I am, however, very limited in my time. (insert big frown here.)
Are you just writing this for the members, or for a larger audience?

Also, I am pondering the best way to be 'redeeming the time' for 2025, and that may mean some abandonment of my own writing in pursuit of other angles... such as abandoning producing as a book, and producing segments for a couple magazine publications - quicker, easier things to do.

The book is an extremely long project, and perhaps not the best way to get the material out there. Maybe better to produce it in segments, then use those segments as core for the book later.

If I do that, I may move back toward editing, too, if anyone has anything they want me to take an editorial look at. (Again, I'm far from the best editor, but I AM affordable - and our @david_wendelken has introduced us to many tools seeming to be helpful and worthy of a look.)
 
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