I spent a productive day yesterday editing Apocalypse.
My task was to take away all the filler (of which there was quite a bit, because I wrote the originals about three years ago when I didn't know as much as I do now) and to get rid of some of the gazillion points of view, because my dev editor said it's not a good thing to follow that many characters, even in third person omniscient. So I guess third person omniscient isn't that omniscient?
I'm not done yet. I need to ratchet up some of the suspense. I need to add back a couple things I took out. I need to see if I'm going to put back the Amarel/Batarel/Natalie subplot. (I'm not. No matter that it completely guts another novel I wrote. It isn't a good turn of plot, although it made a good philosophical point.)
So I'll be busy writing, in-between bringing the dead bat to Public Health and writing to my new teaching assistant.
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