Episode #310: Time Now, For The Editing Portion Of Our Program

An oldie but still a goody from last summer. Sunflowers for a sunshiny day. A harbinger of a cool spring this year, perhaps?

And so it begins that zero day is upon us. Or to be more precise, over one thousand three hundred pages spanning five books totaling one hundred twenty chapters are now officially knockin' on my front door.

On February 6, 2025, I wrote the proverbial 'the end' to my fantasy series "Sister vs Sister". Besides deciding on the overall title of the series and coming up with the necessary sub-titles for all five volumes, along with the previously mentioned page edit note taking, I spent the rest of 2025 performing the following:

Front-to-back-to-front note taking and reviewing.

Basically, on that first read through, I performed another round of editing and making sure there were no continuity issues going forward. I then did the exact same thing again going backwards from the end looking for the exact same issues.

After that particular read through and letting it rest for a few weeks, I turned my attention to fixing a few characters so that they were consistent all the way through. In other words, a few characters started off being portrayed a particular way, but by the end had evolved into something completely different.

For example: The Pod Queen's hair spirit started off in Book #2 as being her bff, but by the end of that book had morphed into being her sister. Thus a continuity issue that needed to be addressed.

I found another continuity issue with another character that was portrayed one way and as the story progresses performed a one-eighty by the end.

Overall, I found about five character/plot continuity issues, of which a couple were actually fixed while I was writing the series. So while I have my work cut out for me, it's not as bad as it could have been.

I say "not as bad as it could have been" because I made a concentrated effort to be clear and concise with my note taking. As most of you know, my handwriting is garbage, so my printing has to be clear enough for me to decipher. Believe it or not, this is a serious on-going issue for me. If I become too tired, my printing becomes just sloppy enough not to be legible, which has created problems over the years.

So this is my life for the next year, and just like in 2024, I will publish the third of my four projects (revamped/rewritten novella) sometime in the spring while working on these edits. And just like previously, I will be journaling my continuing adventures with my fantasy series, with a brief summary here and a slightly more detailed post on Facebook. If you have Facebook, please check out my author's page (link on the right hand side of the front page).

Have a good rest of your week.

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