A well deserved day off from work… but not revising
One of the advantages of being in the military is that we get federal holidays off. So that means that I didn’t have to go into work today! Talk about a well deserved day off. No work means time to go out with my family and have some fun.
Ellie and I already went to the gym and now we are waiting for our youngest to catch a nap before going to Baltimore and wandering around a museum together as a family. Needless to say I am one happy man.
What am I doing while our little one sleeps? Primarily I am going to get out kitchen in order and cleaned. But on top of that I am going to be reading my manuscript. That is right. While today is a day off, there is no rest for the revising. I have been a good little author and have been reading my manuscript everyday since I started my revising process. I am not rushing through it. I am taking my time like I would with any other book I am reading. And amazingly enough I have resisted the urge to make notes where things need to be changed or reworked. I have resisted the desire to start my new outline. I have even stymied the need to work on character sketches and scene sketches for later. I have been a very good little author indeed.
That is not to say I don’t have a huge amount of ideas floating around in my head. But I decided that I would read it all the way through once before writing down anything. And that is what I am going to do. Once I get the whole story as it is already written into my head, fresh and new, then I will see it a complete thing. From there I can better decided how everything is going to go and work. I can go through with a fine toothed comb and weed out the good from the bad. And then the fun begins.
But for now I am going to get some coffee, work on the kitchen and then read more. What about you? What are you doing today?
I think that’s a good idea to read through with not action. I did that with mine and you read it how the reader would. I think you get a feel for the book before you get the red pen out
We’ve had a deluge of snow overnight. I spent the day digging the car out and then editing. Enjoy your trip to the museum.
That much snow is only fun when it comes to snow ball fights and building igloos and snow forts. I say get a cuppa while you edit. A good cup of tea makes everything better.