{"id":10193,"date":"2014-12-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:31:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:31:34","slug":"beautiful-books-3-lets-talk-editing-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/beautiful-books-3-lets-talk-editing-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Books #3: Let&#8217;s Talk Editing &#8211; Red Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/beautifulbooksblogbuttonfinal_zpsbf73db14-300x300-1.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">This month I&#8217;m participating in Beautiful Books for the third time and the last part of the three part link-up! It was so much fun. I&#8217;ll miss it. Sadness. \ud83d\ude41 It&#8217;s a three-month long blog link up hosted by PaperFury formally&nbsp;<\/span>the Notebook Sisters<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">&nbsp;about the three stages of writing: plotting, writing, and editing in honor of NaNoWriMo. I won NaNoWriMo! Yay! \ud83d\ude00 I did&nbsp;this link-up<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/11\/beautiful-books-2-hows-writing-going.html\">last month<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/10\/beautiful-books-red-hood.html\">the month befor<\/a>e, and it was so helpful. If you&#8217;d like to do Beautiful Books yourself, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/paperfury.com\/beautiful-books-linkup-3-lets-talk-editing\/\">Paperfury<\/a> website. Now here are the questions!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>1. On a scale of 1 (worst) to 10 (best) how well do you think this book turned out?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I&#8217;d say 7 or 7.5. Maybe 8. It still needs a lot of work, but I really like how the plot and characters are coming. I think it&#8217;s the best first draft I&#8217;ve ever written. I feel like I know what I&#8217;m doing, and it&#8217;s going to take less revisions than it has before with other novels.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>2. Have you ever rewritten or edited one of your books before? If so, what do you do to prepare yourself? If not, what\u2019s your plan?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">Yes, many, many times. I&#8217;m currently rewriting my science-fiction novel <i><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/p\/current-projects.html\">Subsapien Biomech<\/a><\/i> while I&#8217;m giving <i>Red Hood<\/i> a six week (at least) rest period. I think finally this will be the reworking that will make SB ready. Like I mentioned before, I like letting my work rest before editing. I just discovered this concept a year or two ago and it works wonders.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I plan on working on the first rewrite of <i>Red Hood<\/i> next year after I finish the one for <i>Subsapien Biomech<\/i>. I want to read over the whole book and root out all the weak spots then I&#8217;ll work on fleshing them out, then work on rewriting it. I actually enjoy rewriting. It&#8217;s like putting muscles on the skeleton of my book.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>3. What\u2019s your final wordcount? Do you plan to lengthen or trim your book?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">69,461 words. I wrote 19,433 before NaNoWriMo so I would complete it by the end of NaNo. It will probably lengthen in the rewrite, because the book definitely needs more description, then I&#8217;ll trim it down to probably around 80K.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>4. What\u2019s are you most proud of? Plot, characters, or pacing?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I think my pacing has gotten a lot better in this book, but I think it&#8217;s plot. It has a lot of twists and turns, and I love it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>5. What\u2019s your favorite bit of prose or line from this novel?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">There&#8217;s so much to pick, but this part I really enjoyed, because Mor hated being in this foreign, snow-covered land of Isriki until this part. I even have a song to go with it. ^ ^<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<object class=\"BLOGGER-youtube-video\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/ytimg.googleusercontent.com\/vi\/PSOcaAwyyME\/0.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/PSOcaAwyyME&#038;source=uds\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">Night painted the entire sky black. A trace of green lit a spot among the stars. Gradually more color bled into the heavens until it grew into a green pulsing wave. Then blues, purples, and pinks added into the mix until the swirl formed a rainbow of light. The ice pillar in the center of the village shot a beam of green of its own skyward. The myriad of lights dyed the snow, making the dark, whitewashed world ablaze with color.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">A smile spread on Mor\u2019s face. This must be one of the auroras she\u2019d heard stories about. It was magnificent. This country did have its beauty after all.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>6. What aspect of your book needs the most work?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">Description and I feel like the characters and world need to be developed more.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>7. What aspect of your book is your favorite?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I really like the characters and plot. I&#8217;m slowly getting to know the characters, but the plot I pretty much have solid. It gets even better in the next books to come. I&#8217;m planning on making <i>Red Hood<\/i> a trilogy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>8. How are your characters? Well-rounded, or do they still need to be fleshed-out?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I&#8217;m still getting to know them, but I feel like I at least have 50% of them down. They still haven&#8217;t told me all of their deep dark secrets yet, but I&#8217;m pretty solid on how they tick at least the main characters. Side characters need work definitely.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>9. If you had to do it over again, what would you change about the whole process?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I would do more planning than I did. I didn&#8217;t even expect to write <i>Red Hood<\/i> this year so I kind of rushed the world building and character development.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>10. Did anything happen in your book that completely surprised you? Have any scenes or characters turned out differently to what you planned? Good or bad?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">Oh yeah, a lot things changed, and I got a handful of extra characters, but that&#8217;s the fun of writing seat-of-the-pants. It came out better than I expected.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>11. What was the theme and message? Do you think it came across? If not, is there anything you could do to bring it out more?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I&#8217;m still figuring out the exact theme, and there&#8217;s probably more than one. That&#8217;s one thing I really let grow organically in my writing. The theme is trusting in God&#8217;s plans, not your plans, but there are also themes of wisdom and sacrifice. I think they&#8217;ll come out on their own. When I write I let God tell me what the theme for the book should be.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>12. Do you like writing with a deadline (like NaNoWriMo) or do you prefer to write-as-it-comes?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I like writing under a deadline. I think it&#8217;s important to keep one accountable so the book can be finished or you can get tired of the book. That&#8217;s one thing I really learned this year. NaNoWriMo is way tight for me, and I&#8217;m glad it only occurs once a year. XD I prefer to write drafts within three months.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>13. Comparative title time! What published books, movies, or TV shows are like your book? (Ex: Inkheart meets X-Men, etc.)<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><i>Red Hood<\/i> is a mix between <i>the Chronicles of Narnia<\/i> and the anime <i><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/12\/tea-tuesday-ive-got-moves-like-jeager.html\">Attack on Titan<\/a><\/i>. It has a lot Narnia elements from the fantasy environment, the creatures, the costumes, and the implied English accents, and it has the rough technology, the military organization, and the nearly&nbsp;indestructible&nbsp;enemy like in <i>Attack on Titan<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>14. How do you celebrate a finished novel?!<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I usually treat myself to something I rarely get like food from my favorite restaurant. I still haven&#8217;t treated myself, because I got sick a few days before I finished this novel.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><b>15. When people are done reading your book, what feeling do you want them to come away with?<\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\">I want them to be encouraged and enlightened, and I want them to have had a journey they won&#8217;t forget. I want them to feel like they wouldn&#8217;t be the same without reading my book.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20px;\">So there you have it, that is a bit more about&nbsp;<i>Red Hood<\/i>. I&#8217;ve finished the first draft this year, and I&#8217;m hoping to work on the macro edit and rewrite next year. ^ ^ If you&#8217;d like to see a bit more of <i>Red Hood<\/i> check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/storitori\/red-hood\/\">the book&#8217;s Pinterest board<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/05\/interview-with-mor-red-hood.html\">Mor&#8217;s character interview<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/11\/interview-with-claes-red-hood.html\">Claes&#8217;s character interview<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; line-height: 20px;\">Thanks for reading!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.790000915527344px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Are you working on a novel? 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