1) I am back at Day Job so I'm much more tired in the evenings and don't have as much energy for personal projects. It's really noticeable by 8:30pm, I'm exhausted and my mental energy is next to nothing.
2) The small amounts of energy I do have are spent on working on the manuscript. This isn't leaving much time for blogging, but I'm back!
How's The Book?
My manuscript at the moment is with a very kind beta reader (my dad) who is helping me with repeated sentences, things that aren't clear, grammatical errors, etc. Then I generally do make the changes he's suggested. There's one sentence here or there he's said to delete but I think they work for cadence and for my voice, so I've kept them.
After that, I'm reading the book aloud. This has helped me spot any errors that aren't clear, because my audience asks questions!
For example, one of my characters was hiding but the audience thought the character wasn't even there at all. I had to rewrite a part of that scene to give a clue that the character was the house afterall.
So I'm working on reading the second draft aloud and using that to compile the third draft. In theory, I'm going to have a very polished manuscript on my hands!
Even I can say it's the best I've ever written, but I'm not sure if that's saying much.
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