Gone fishin’

 I’ve had one of those Writer’s Collisions’ this weeks.

I think of it as a Three Book Pile-up

So a published book, for me, has three rounds of revisions.

The first one is the big one, lots of in depth edits to deal with.

I do those revisions and send the book back.

Then the book comes back with that I think of as line-edits. Misplaced commas, efforts to change from passive voice to active. Small changes but plenty of them.

I do those revisions and send the book back.

Then a third round they call galley edits. This is the book, all laid out as it’ll appear in print. Read it through one more time. Minor edits. You want to change the word books to boots, okay. But keep the page to the page. You want to add a sentence, you have to take out a sentence. Don’t add so much you extend the word count.

So right now, I’ve just finished a book, then BOOM BOOM two finished books hit my inbox. One in the first round of edits, one in the second. Plus I need to read through the newly finished book and send it in.

Add in, I’m on vacation. But since I write late at night, usually after everyone goes to bed, I rarely fail to get work done every day.

Add in, my mom passed away two weeks ago. A sad and confusing time because so many of my reflexes are rooted in, “I can’t wait to tell Mom this, or show her this picture.” Amazing amount of work involved in losing my mom, wrapped in grief.

She was 94 years and not well. A woman of great, enduring faith. So the only true grief is missing her because she’s somewhere glorious.

Add into this, a new grandbaby. Such a pretty little thing. Five weeks old now.

And now I've gone fishin'.

Anyway, I’m not writing much in this blog except just for whining about how very busy and hectic my life is and everyone’s is so I'm not even special!!!! 

My little 'inside baseball' about revisions was about all I could manage this month.

So Happy August Seekerville