And now the meat of the process begins. My book has gone through professional proofreading. I now have to reconcile over 3,600 suggested changes and corrections. I glanced through real fast and the proofreader caught a couple of inconsistencies in my story that I missed. I also confused her in a couple of places because I was not clear on where things occurred and why (being vague on purpose–no spoilers). I reconciled the text and that took care of about 30 proofreader comments. But that still left over 3,600 to deal with. As I work full time during the day , this means there are going to be some busy evenings. One thing is certain, knowing the types of things that they are looking for, my next book will come back with far fewer issues.
I guess this is the moment that we’ve all been waiting for, so I best get to it. I am sure I will wind up adding some to the plot to make things understandable, but at this point, the manuscript has been completely proofread so any additions have to be done very carefully, unless I want to pay for another complete proofreading.
The gauntlet has been thrown and the challenge has been accepted! Tag! I’m “it.”
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