Editing, Oh My

[przed]

I'm determined to finally get my Pros novel, Exile, posted by this weekend. But because I am clearly far too picky/insane, I'm giving it one last read through. 63,000 words down. 19,000 to go.

And as many times as I've gone through it, I'm still finding the odd thing to tweak.

::sigh::

Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're picky or insane (well, perhaps a little of the latter *g*), I think it's natural to want to tweak. Apart from anything else, you learn something new with everything you write so sometimes you look at older work and think "now I know that works better this way..."

I think it's one of the best things about AO3, and one of the worst, that you can edit to your heart's content.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I do try to impose some sort of a cut off on myself, because you can tweak forever. (The Sweetie calls me The Tweaker, which he of course sings to The Who's The Seeker.) But because I had to do major quality control on the formatting of this one--I had to convert it from a double-columned file with fancy wingdings for section breaks--I figured I might as well give it one last read through at the same time. At least most of the tweaks are really minor stylistic things.