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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Enjorous on September 12, 2010, 01:22:35 AM ---At the top of the page there should be a ruler with two little arrow looking things, highlight all your text and drag the TOP arrow over however far you want the indent. That should do it.
If you're using 07 and don't see the ruler look at the top right hand side where there's a button just above the scroll bar that says "View ruler."
Hope that helps.
--- End quote ---
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Although I'm not sure if that'll work if the indent thingie is already set, or if you can slide it back and redo it. *goes to play with pages*
And mind still goin' essplodey all over the place...got something around 12 pages, front and back, to type up. And counting.
Kali:
The indent thing worked fine, once I worked out some problems with some stuff having manual line breaks and some stuff having paragraph marks (stupid cutting and pasting). It's all properly formatted now! Thanks!
Today's work was more on the editing front, one nice top-to-bottom sweep for things like Ethan's eye color, making sure Father Christopher's voice doesn't sound too colloquial, and minor rewrites of a couple of scenes I knew were awkward or just plain didn't fit with what I'd already established. I'm happy to have added to my word count, despite some deletions, and it's almost 82k now.
Still to do, add in the CU stuff and figure out a way to do so in a way that makes Ethan look even shadier. That's the only big edit remaining, honestly. Then I have to make sure that Risa's eyes stay the same color throughout, add in a bit of Savannah flavor text, make sure I'm acknowledging injuries when appropriate, explain why magic as I've described it lets Rachel lock and unlock doors at will, and... and that's it. It'll be ready for beta readers.
Hardly seems possible.
Enjorous:
Do you have Beta's already?
Kali:
I had asked for beta volunteers back in April, but given the time that's passed I'll probably ask again, perhaps by reviving that post.
Today, I have done no editing. Instead, I've had fun with beginning marketing something that, in all likelihood, will never find an agent (how many first novels do, after all?). I fished around and found a web hosting site, got my domain, and am in the process of building my author's website. There was some excellent advice posted about what an author's website should contain, so I plan to put up a) a pic of me when I get one that doesn't make me look like a drunken clown, b) a blog, c) a "novel info" page with behind-the-scenes tidbits, character notes, and possibly location pictures.
I will tackle most of this after I go enjoy a movie with no socially redeeming qualities, namely the latest Resident Evil movie.
meg_evonne:
Kali, can you post the web host site with the author site suggestions? Thanks!
And let's see. Oh yeah, finally got through the paper revision, tackled some interesting delimnas, tonight I begin changing the e-copy to match the paper copy, then I'll print off the official copy for the editor who is simply being gracious to review it. Maybe five query requests out, unless I start agonizing over my synopsis. I hate those things. I simply, unreasonably hate them.
If anyone has a site where successful synopsis (okay what is the plural, too tired to look it up) have been posted, please please post it?!?
Crossing my fingers on your agent queries!
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