Editing Continues to Progress

Finished with my pass through chapters, 5 – 10. Well, at least my first pass. And I can honestly say the manuscript is way improved - Chapters 1 – 10, anyway. Since I have 24 chapters in THE VASE, that leaves 14 more chapters. So while I’m waiting for Ti to send the next chunk, I’ll read Chapters 1 – 10 again, to see how the improved prose sounds.

Whenever I read parts of the manuscript that have been changed, it feels strange because I’m so used to reading the original version. But as I made the changes, I knew the prose was better, and some of the sentences made more sense. Some of them fit better. And some of them have better research supporting the information.

I have said that I didn’t change everything Ti suggested. Whenever I thought it better to leave it as is, for whatever reason, I was fully cognizant of the fact that I might change it anyway later on. Now is the time to see if it happens. If not, there will certainly be other reads.

I’m eager to see how it sounds. I know the changes I did make will stick, unless I change them again; not back to the way they were, but improving them even more. That’s happened a lot. It means the manuscript is getting better and better.

It’s thrilling to me, really, because I know when this book is done it’s going to be a superbly written work. It will be like when I finished a great painting or sculpture. But I’m betting it will be an even better feeling than that. We’ll see.