I'm currently working on the senior year of the Jack Pierce Chronicles. My goal is to have it published before.............Christmas. It takes a while.
For those who are curious, here's my process. Each author has their own.
Write. It takes between 3-8 days for me to write a 20 page chapter. I will continue to write until I get to either Christmas break or the end of the school year, depending on how it's going.
Rough edit. I work back through the entire book, looking for continuity issues, major editing errors, adding necessary clarifications. I'll break that down into chapters ranging from 15-30 pages in length.
Second edit. I work through each chapter, making minor edits. At the end of each chapter, I send it off to:
Steven - he receives each chapter only after I've beat it to death. He edits it and sends it back.
Last chance - I'll work through it one more time before publishing each chapter.
In spite of all that, I've made some misses, using complement rather than compliment, peddle rather than pedal, and canon rather than cannon, and the like. I'll still get an email from grammar nazis telling me I should have had an extra comma or didn't need one. I don't mind.
This is a hobby. Kids, foster kids, attorneys, horses, and my own vacations tend to slow me down, here and there. Because of the lengthy time between episodes, I do my best to remind readers of who familiar characters are, without getting bogged down. Characters like Veronica or Cheryl are left out for chapters at a time so that I only have to re-introduce them once.
I do hope you enjoyed the tie in between Beach House and JP Chronicles.
Once I have