WABWM: The WARPAINT Revision Schedule

7:40 AM

Have just finished printing of the WARPAINT manuscript. Am getting ready to print off my HTRYN worksheets. Have SFR index cards in the requisite four colors, have my little notebook, have a couple good pens, have space at the kitchen table.

Today I start the revision.
(Boing!_,.-~*^*~-.,_Boing!_,.-~*^*~-.,_Boing!_,.-~*^*~-.,_)

Hit all of last week’s deadlines, HTCB is ready to go for its official Tuesday Launch.

But…

WARPAINT! REVISION! TODAY!

God, I love my job.

I won’t have stats or goals until I do the math. So, math is first. Will post that later.

Write well, kick ass, have FUN.


3:40 PM

Back. Got the manuscript printed and set up, got my notebook set up, have my stickes, have my blank index cards in four colors, and have my calendar.

It was when I got to the calendar that the hollow place opened up in my gut.

MY TERMS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS:

Readthrough is finding plot holes, broken story, thin characters, and other crap. It is NOT marking up the manuscript. It is writing in the notebook, figuring out how to tie the book together, noting problems and possible fixes based on the Sentence, the Theme, and the two Subthemes. It is intensive, it is difficult, and it is essential to get right.

Write-in is actual writing on the manuscript. It is ripping out the bad parts, creating new good parts, and not screwing up what was already okay. It is also finding typos, spellos, and punctuation and typographic errors (in other words, the parts I really suck at.)

Type-in is working from the hand-written sheets and putting the changes into the computer copy of the manuscript. Some on-the-fly changes happen here; those that do tend to be great for the story and terrible for the typography, because I always end up introducing new errors.

Corrections is making (sometimes significant) changes based on my editor’s input. It’s also fixing errors found by my ARC readers. If I were really good, my ARC readers would have nothing to find. Unfortunately…

Formatting is putting the book into all epub formats plus print format. If life is kind, this will be the LAST book I format. Ever. I HATE formatting. I’m doing it this time because I cannot ask anyone for a one-day turn-around on formatting the manuscript. (Except me.)

Publication is uploading the book to the print site, the ebook sites, and MY shop, and then letting folks know it’s there.

The schedule below will make HTRYN students weep. It makes me weep.

OCTOBER:
23: Readthrough, Chaps 1-10.
24: Readthrough, Chaps 11-20
25: Readthrough, Chaps 21-30
26: Write all 30 Scene-For-Revision plot cards.
27-28 (weekend): Records WARPAINT song.

29: Write-in
30: Write-in
31: Write-in

NOVEMBER
1: Write-in
2: Write-in
3-4 (weekend): Create WARPAINT music video

5: Write-in
6: Write-in
7: Type-in
8: OFF, family thing
9: Type-in
10-11 (weekend): Type-in, copy to editor

12: Corrections
13: Corrections
14: ARCs to readers
15: Corrections
16: Corrections
17-18 (Weekend): Format all versions of book, upload to sites

19: Early bird reader promo
20: Official pub day.

If I fall behind at any point here, the pub date jumps to Nov. 27.

My objective is to NOT fall behind.

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5 responses to “WABWM: The WARPAINT Revision Schedule”

  1. Selene Avatar
    Selene

    I saw that Hunting the Corrigan’s Bloood is up on Amazon. Yay! Don’t know if you’re aware that the price is 9.19$ for international readers? (Or at least for me–I’m in Sweden.)

    I know Amazon sometimes automatically applies some sort of fee for international readers, and we do have taxes and stuff applied, but even with that, that’s still higher than most other similar e-books at Amazon. (That price is fine with me, btw, but I know some readers are very price-sensitive, so just wanted to give you a headsup if you were not aware of it.)

    Looking forward to the new novel!

    1. Yog-Sothoth Avatar
      Yog-Sothoth

      You can always buy HTCB here on Holly’s site. Not as good as buying it from Amazon from Holly’s perspective, but if Amazon are going to be pains in the wrist about prices, I would not buy from them.

    2. Holly Avatar
      Holly

      Hi, Selene,

      I’ve now heard. I have my settings to equivalent price in all currencies, but I’m aware that Amazon does raise prices when it thinks the market will bear them, then pocket the difference.

      I can spot it for myself when I visit the site logged out, then visit it logged in. As myself, I pay higher prices than the standard on just about everything I buy.

      It isn’t something I can fix, but you can buy directly from my shop if you have PayPal, and pay my price rather than theirs.

  2. SharonW Avatar

    Wow, Holly. It’s like writing was real work or something, amirite? 😉

    Seriously, I’ve been reading your one-pass revision tips, and I’m in awe. So much to get done, and such an efficient (if demanding) way to do it.

    But I need to finish the first draft before I can revise the durn thing. I think I’m finally climbing back out of something that was either a really bad cold or a really mild flu, and making progress again. Today, 1200 words of fixing the POV; 557 words of new material.

  3. Jean Avatar

    And it takes me three years to do this. 😀 I’ll get better.

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