Updated both Velvet Blue versions for KDP and Smashwords and got both semi-corrected copies up there tonight. Whew!
I caught a few hidden paragraph return Oopsy-daisies in both my versions of “Velvet Blue”. I finally found the time to sit down and make those needed corrections, turned on the paragraph return and found a few more little annoyances that shouldn’t be visible on a Kindle but were and corrected those.
Ah, and then there’s the mysterious flubbed dialog that’s eluding me in Velvet Blue, but can’t fix everything in a single night. So, I will have to wait some more before I can make additional time to go back in and correct that at a later date. For the most part, I did pick out one scene were the protagonists just let their dialog drop and it cuts to a different scene without either character delving further into an explanation as to how my female protagonist goes from being just average mortal to immortal. Looks like I have a lot of work to do on that as well.
But...
Like all indie authors they’ll learn as they go. Rome wasn’t built in a day. I promise to hunt down that flubbed line in my Velvet Blue story as soon as I’m not swamped with the upcoming holiday madness and when I can find the time to get in my “writing groove” will likely expand on the scene where the female protagonist in Velvet Blue is on the verge of discovering how she became angelic. I know, very difficult for me to put simply into words at the moment… give me some time to think on it, perhaps even sleep on it for a few.
Until then, may everybody out there have a safe, happy, and very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hopefully I’ll find the time to keep clacking away at the keys on my vampire sequel to Abide with Me get that somewhat in the “rough draft” finished phase before I move on to the daunting task of editing, proof-reading, more editing. And then more reading and correcting, scene changes, dialog expanded… and oh, yeah, don’t forget to use spell check and run it through a paragraph return check.
And will I please remember to indent the final copy? I’ll get on it as soon as humanly possible. ;o)
I caught a few hidden paragraph return Oopsy-daisies in both my versions of “Velvet Blue”. I finally found the time to sit down and make those needed corrections, turned on the paragraph return and found a few more little annoyances that shouldn’t be visible on a Kindle but were and corrected those.
Ah, and then there’s the mysterious flubbed dialog that’s eluding me in Velvet Blue, but can’t fix everything in a single night. So, I will have to wait some more before I can make additional time to go back in and correct that at a later date. For the most part, I did pick out one scene were the protagonists just let their dialog drop and it cuts to a different scene without either character delving further into an explanation as to how my female protagonist goes from being just average mortal to immortal. Looks like I have a lot of work to do on that as well.
But...
Like all indie authors they’ll learn as they go. Rome wasn’t built in a day. I promise to hunt down that flubbed line in my Velvet Blue story as soon as I’m not swamped with the upcoming holiday madness and when I can find the time to get in my “writing groove” will likely expand on the scene where the female protagonist in Velvet Blue is on the verge of discovering how she became angelic. I know, very difficult for me to put simply into words at the moment… give me some time to think on it, perhaps even sleep on it for a few.
Until then, may everybody out there have a safe, happy, and very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hopefully I’ll find the time to keep clacking away at the keys on my vampire sequel to Abide with Me get that somewhat in the “rough draft” finished phase before I move on to the daunting task of editing, proof-reading, more editing. And then more reading and correcting, scene changes, dialog expanded… and oh, yeah, don’t forget to use spell check and run it through a paragraph return check.
And will I please remember to indent the final copy? I’ll get on it as soon as humanly possible. ;o)