a leap day

 Happy Leap Day! Didn’t realize this lined up so perfectly with my posting schedule. 


Well onto the usual lowdown, revising and editing once again takes me longer than I’d like. Last Friday I edited 9 chapters in one sitting and my brain has yet to fully bounce back so-to-speak. I edit in two parts. First I mark up a physical copy of my manuscript so I have a plan in place and have had time to think it through. Then I use that marked up copy as a sort of map to editing the main draft on my computer. 


The first stage was a breeze this time. But getting to work on the next has been a bit of a struggle. Like I said I went through 9 chapters in one day and it kinda hurt my head. So I can do a lot in one sitting but sometimes its not worth it. Having a bit of health struggle recently hasn’t helped in the getting things down department either.


Some days the editing and revising goes really well. Others its like pulling teeth and sitting in the woods; a lot of sitting around and being moderately uncomfortable. But once I’m feeling better a lot of the motivation struggles will fall away. Being just a little under the weather really makes a big difference in my ability to make good well thought out choices. And well revising requires me to be able to think clearly. 


Heres hoping next week will be better and I can get back to it with joy. Until then I plan to do what I can while taking care of myself.  

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