Author Journal 9th – 15th January 2023

Hiya, Everyone! 👋

I’m back! I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally get back to working on Running the Asset. If you could see how big my smile is as I write this, then you’d… Okay, you’d probably think I was a crazed psycho with how wide my eyes are.

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Anyway. If you’re wondering where the hell I’ve been for the last half of 2022 after finishing my first draft, I wrote about it here. The main thing is that I’m ready to get back to bringing Adam and Elle’s story to an e-reader near you in 2023.

The New Editing Plan

I wrote about my editing plan in May or June last year while trying to get everything done in the shortest time possible. You know, the strategy written by a crazy person on the very edge of burnout.

Now that I’m safely away from the burnout cliff and a wee bittie less crazy here’s the new plan:

1. Iterative rewrites
   • New scenes
   • Amp up the emotions (I always have to go back in to add the emotions–I’m a robot)
   • Descriptions
   • Dialogue
2. Content edit
3. Proofreading
4. Beta readers
5. Editor

This Week’s Goal

Starting off nice and gentle, this week my aim is to:

• Re-evaluate the outline for romance and suspense beats for improvements
• Scene blocking for new scenes
• Scene blocking for rewrites

The crazy-looking screenshot above is the new-to-me program, Plottr, that I’ll use to complete this week’s tasks. Plottr gives a visual timeline of multiple plot lines on one screen. But it does more than that; it also lets you input scene outlines and link characters and locations to those scenes. It’s going to be a lot of fun–and probably some frustration–working with Plottr for this week’s tasks.

That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by, and remember to hit like and leave a comment below. Have an awesome week!