Wow. I have to tell you, after two weeks of intensive editing on Hell's Own, it's a lot more readable, and, I hope, publishable.
But my brain feels like white-noise mush.
Every sentence, every clause: does this add to the story? Do I need this? Can I snip it and not destroy the feel? Can I say this simpler?
Big chunks of the story were eliminated. The ending is better. Two more days, another couple of read-throughs, and I'll ship it to a few friends for sanity-checking (typos, partial sentences caused by cuts, etc).
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Today they announced the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award top-ten. Good luck to those writers! I'll reenter the contest next time around, with an action/adventure novel I suppose, not a literary work, but one that should win some more attention.
That's all for tonight,
dave
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