work progresses

And here at Casa Gilmerakos, the revisions to Staying Dead progress. Well, the note-taking and making part of revisions progresses, anyway. New territory for me -- making it up as I go along, on how it's to be done. Very odd. But fun.

Basically, my editor sent me a bunch of so-called global points, things that continue throughout the manuscript, not just one particular detail. Each global point has a breakdown of several smaller but still general examples (ferex: "how does X affect Y's life?"). So I'm taking one point per day, addressing each sub-point with potential solutions. Each point seems to be getting 2-3 pages of handwritten notes, to be expanded upon in the actual manuscript, as I can fit it in and use it.

There is the line-by-line stuff, too, which is just fill-in-missing-info. Lots of my dread 'clarify' appearing in the margins in my counternotes (my authors used to shake in fear at what they called "The C Word").

I feel like I've got a workable system. But I've never done editor-directed revisions before*, what do I know?

Having fun, though.


* on this scale -- I've revised stories before, natch.