- This is becoming as much an exercise in editing as much as anything. I need to fire my editor, so many errors I'm finding. I said last time that I was surprised at how few spelling and grammar errors I was finding. Not anymore.
- One of the weirder errors is something that must be happening somewhere in the transfer from website to document to PDF. A lot of proper nouns are losing the spaces either before or after. For instance, people are "fromRoanoke" or reading "Game of Throneswhen." It's odd and I'm spending a lot of my new editing energy fixing these.
- I'm really pleased at how well I telegraph future plot developments. My biggest worry as a writer is creating characters that are inconsistent and unrealistic. I have not failed at that here.
- Michael is very much the sexual predator he self-deludes himself into believing he is not (I've lost count the number of times he deliberately seduces a under-the-age-of-consent minor. No children, but he rides that line as close as he can.)
- Sarah's jealousy is well-established.
- Rebecca's fondness for Michael and her willingness to forgive him in PbN is nicely set up.
- Hell, there's even a throw-away line in the very beginning of VbN Act One that mentions Michael's sister, so her arrival on the scene in PbN Act One isn't as jarring as I thought it would be.
- It's interesting how you can see I shifted my approach mid-stream. VbN Acts Three and Four are really not parts three and four of a single Virginia by Night novel. They're really written as separate 150 or so page novellas. In some ways, the story is presently structured like so...
- VbN Act One & Two = Part One
- VbN Act Three = Part Two
- VbN Act Four = Part Three
- PbN 1999 = Part Four
- The above is really sloppy writing, but again going back through and fixing this problem is really beyond the scope of my time and energy right now. PbN Act Three is huge and between work, family, and Warlords of Draenor I don't have the time I need to dedicate to it. Let alone anything else.
If you need the threat of eternal damnation to be a good person, then you are not a good person.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
The Kindle Re-read Project Part Two
I'm into reading Act Four of VbN by now and I have further observations.
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