I’ve been concentrating on the novel for quite a while now, and today, with the beginning of the reviewer cycle, I’ve had a chance to do something different. For example, I treated the back lawn for fire ants. But I finally had time to do something that’s been on my list for quite a while.… Continue reading No Writing Today
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Printing Reviewer Copies
Well, now that the initial cleanup is done on the novel, I now have to hand a copy to several trusted reviewers. They will read it and mark up the stuff I missed. Over the years, the review copy style has changed. When a writer (in my case) thinks of a manuscript, it’s in standard… Continue reading Printing Reviewer Copies
Listening to Vikki
One of the steps to my manuscript clean up process, is listening to it. With some of my earlier works, I had spoken it out loud, but a novel this size takes ten hours, at a normal pace. Instead, for several years now, I’ve converted the text to a spoken file using the text-to-speech software… Continue reading Listening to Vikki