The good thing about KILLER OF KILLERS and the fact that I had worked on it for five years, is that there are no typos. But as I was posting about yesterday, I did use too many exclamation points. And that was because there is a lot of excitement and shouting in much of the dialogue. I had also used all caps for the loudest shouts and screams.
But Nancy said that instead of all caps for those instances, to just use italics. I already did use them for emphasis, but I do agree that they are better for loud shouts and screams, too. Because words with all caps stand out too much on a page. And they shouldn't. So the italics solve the issue of emphasis and shouts, etc, while not assaulting a page with a dominating text.
And every single POV switch has been brought to my attention, too. I fixed most. I emailed Sherry if it's OK to keep maybe two are three for the whole book. I remember Nathan Bransford said that two similes for an entire book was OK, so I'm hoping the same can be true for head hops. We'll see. Sherry's sure to answer very soon.
And if it's not OK, I can work it out. I've gotten pretty good at it, actually. So no problem.
Just one thing more to work on. I've got to rewrite the intro so that Trent is the only one waiting in the gate area of the terminal. Since 2001, Nancy pointed out, you can't wait for passentgers in there. You have to wait in the baggage claim area. Unless, of course, you had arrived from an earlier fight yourself, and you never left the gated area. And that will be the case here.
But it's all good so far. I expect to be done with my turn on these edits by today or tomorrow. And then we'll see. Yes. We'll see.
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