by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
When I finish writing a book, I follow a particular routine to get it into shape for publication. In case my process helps anyone else, I thought I’d share it here.
First off, I read the story through once and make small changes as I go. Small changes are typos as well as things like changing the age of a character or fixing an inconsistency. I note on a separate document (Things to Fix) larger changes that I’d like to make. In a recent book, these larger changes included: adding more scenes for a character, adding another suspect interview, following up on dialogue a character threw out in chapter two, and taking advantage of setting more.Continue reading