Printed Manuscript
Guess what? I finally did it! I printed my entire manuscript.
And MAN!
This thing is HUGE! And Intimidating! And . . . I finally see the light at the end of this long tunnel!
I can edit fine in a word document, but I always seem to catch grammar mistakes easier on paper. I don’t know why, but I do. That was my motivation for printing this brick–line edits.
Yes, I’m to the final stages of editing Familiar Spirit. Finally, after writing and editing on-and-off for three years. It’s been a long road.
Wanna see the brick?
If you’re not a writer, this may not look like much to you. but this thing is 75,000+ words! Imagine writing a college essay that long, and you can understand my excitement. Know how you get stressed thinking about a 10 page essay? Well take a look a the photo above. You might feel better. =)
Line edits, here I come!
Smiles!
Melanie
Posted on March 21, 2012, in Editing and tagged big, brick, editing, familiar spirit, huge, line edits, manustript, melanie golden, pages, print, printed, revising, urban fantasy, word, writer, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Greetings! Welcome to my little blog. I'm a writer on the path to publication, jewelry designer, and photography college student. Hush, my characters think i'm cool. Feel free to follow along my winding road to success.
I see it is a fantasy novel. What is the story about?
Hi!
If you want you can click on the tab titled “Familiar Spirit” under Writing on my blog for more info. =)
Melanie
Exciting stuff. When you printed your MS did you double-space the lines? I always get excited when I print out my MS. I wish I was more organised; it gets costly and time-consuming to print it out 10 times. Lol
Congrats and keep me posted.
Yes, double spaced! This is actually the first time i’ve ever printed it. My other revisions were done on the computer.
Melanie, congratulations! It must feel so good to be see all your hard work in print! We hope you’ll consider sending it to Take Two when you’re ready. Happy editing!