This is Your Brain. And This is Your Brain on Editing.

Heh.  I'm noticing that I'm having what I am calling "Editing Brain".  It's where I have this tunnel vision where there is editing and only editing.  Things go undone, emails are left unopened, and so on.  I'm not even remembering things for World of Warcraft, which is one of my favorite if annoying games to play at the moment.

So, remember kids, while writing brain is bad, editing brain is worse.  However, unlike drugs, you really should edit.  Edit is good.  Editing leads to publishing which leads to readers which leads to fanfic that is not categorized by wattpad.  God that was a stupid article about fanfic.  Tempted to write into Huff Post about it and complain.  Probably won't, but jeez.  Use more than one source where people host their stuff.  Like AO3 for example.

Anywho.  I'm going back to the editing slag mines.  Have a good weekend and you can find my fanfic at AO3 under crescent_gaia.  Cheers!

An Update

One and a half chapters are done.  I overuse some words too much, like just, but otherwise, there's nothing too horrible.  Saturdays and Sundays are going to be the days where I put the line edits into the word documents.  Right now, it's more printing out and going line by line to find the mistakes.  Then, when that's all done, just do a quick read before sending it out to the readers.  Should take about a month, month and a half, and then... then I'm not sure what to do with myself.

Other than write book 2.  I am thinking that I might start outlining and writing it instead of the other projects I have on tap.  We'll see.  I've got the rest of the month to figure out what to do.

[WriYe Blogging Circle] Fuck the Ides, I'm Going to Fear the Entire Month

Welcome to the first Monday of the month and to the WriYe Blogging Circle prompt.  It is also March.  March is the editing month.  It is known as NaNoEdMo and I am signed up for it through the WriYe forums.  Should also go join the official forums - okay, tried and failed and tweeted them about it.  Woo, productive.  Besides, I did... three hours on a eleven page chapter today.  Oi.  There was a lot of just.  I feel horrible as a writer about the justs.  However, we get the story out and then we take the month of March to red pen it.

In that spirit, we have the question!  A single easy question and a single hard question.  I just realized there are two questions.  Here we go.

Easy Question: Why is it necessary?
Metaphor answer: It's necessary because you need hard work to turn sand into a pearl.
Simile answer: It's necessary because you want your novel to read smoothly like a river flowing through a forest.

It's necessary because, in some way shape or form, you want to publish.  Either self or traditional.  Therefore, you need to edit because no editor wants to slog through all of your errors to get to the gem.  Same goes for self publishing, even more so, because you will get one star reviews about how you've written there for their and so on.  So yes, necessary because we want people to read and like our babies.  Do you like a messy baby with a poopy diaper and syntax errors?  No?  Nobody does.  Change the baby and fix your errors through editing.  The end.

Hard Question: Do you enjoy it?
Like I enjoy a root canal.  At least I can sleep through those.  Necessary but not enjoyable.  If I could staff out of my editing without people killing me, I would.  But I can't at the moment.  So I shall soldier on.  Possibly like you did reading this blog post.

Anywho, thanks for reading and see you Wednesday!