Line editing

[anthimeria]

I just spent seven hours doing a thorough line edit of the last fifty pages of The Novel--the new ending, which was effectively a RD while the rest of the novel was halfway through draft III.  My eyes are crossing.

'Cause it's a RD, I printed the pages out and edited the hard copy, so now I have to go back into the draft and put those changes into effect.

. . . tomorrow, I think.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hint via Tobias Buckell at Alpha: Do line edits from the last page forward. That way, the page numbers from your draft copy will continue to correspond to the ones on the screen.

I may be too late here, but it seemed like a very sensible tip to me, so I thought I'd pass it along.

Good luck!

--Elena

[anthimeria]

I actually did every page from bottom to top, instead of doing the manuscript backward. The whole manuscript-backward thing works for me with short stories, but I've found I need the continuity too much with The Novel
(especially since I changed so much of the plot after the RD!). Still, going page-by-page backward was quite mind numbing enough.

Thanks for the tip, though!