Revisions

Let the Beat Drop – Excerpt No. 2

24 December 2021 by Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment

“Come…” John said sternly.

“No, James,” Kaylee said, “I’m done!”

“That’s my girl,” Julia whispered and realised how that outburst did not rouse any attention. Even in the worst dive Julia came across, the bartenders at least pretended to care… unless this is normal.

Kaylee recoiled away. Before Julia could think, she was standing, with every muscle twitching, ready to pounce.

“I said no!” Kaylee yelled.

“She said no!” Julia yelled.

Disclaimer: This excerpt from Dark Hearts is currently in development. There may be typos, errors, omissions, inconsistencies and so forth. The image is sourced from Pixabay.

Special Delivery!

30 October 2020 by Evelyn Chartres 1 Comment

Special delivery! I just got my manuscript for The Van Helsing Incursion back from the editor in the mail. So guess what I’ll be doing this weekend? That’s right, doing some editing!

The Grand Remodeling

10 September 2018 by Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment

What’s this? Is that a freshly printed manuscript of the Grand for copy editing? Yes! After the bulk of the heavy lifting was done with my latest work, I decided to follow some advice and work on remodeling my book.

How? As you might be able to tell from the image, this manuscript features dates accompanying major changes in era. This will hopefully make things easier for people to follow along.

This manuscript also features a heavy rewrite of the chapter which inspired the Van Helsing Paradox. A lot of changes were done in my latest work to clarify dialogue, so I felt these changes needed to be brought back to the source.

Once my copy editor is done with her changes, I will make sure to re-release eBooks and a print version to celebrate. Exciting!

Hmm, I wonder how many refills of red ink she will need?

The Van Helsing Paradox’s Pseudo Math

5 September 2018 by Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment

What does: 1 manuscript; 15 revision cycles; 17 chapters; 1350 annotations made during copy editing; and 63631 words add up to? Good question. The beginning of the end!

A Quick Revision Update

26 April 2018 by Evelyn Chartres Leave a Comment

Since Revision 3 was completed on 22 Jan 2018, three more revisions were completed for the Van Helsing Paradox. These revisions all aimed at improving the overall readability of the manuscript.Of note there were 1827 revisions and a averaged 38 words between corrections for Revision 3. This followed the trends noted during my review of the Grand and that remains true with this project. The particulars of the cycles are as follows:

Revision 4

Revisions – 928
Revisions per Word – 70

Revision 5

Revisions – 825
Revisions per Word – 78

Revision 6

Revisions – 788
Revisions per Word – 147

The Revisions per Word metric is the most telling, every additional revision leads to fewer corrections to make. While corrections do tend to be grouped together in the manuscript, I can now read pages at a time without making any notes. This trend is expected to continue until the Revisions to make number under 100. That’s normally my cue to send it off to my editor for polish prior to release.