Maybe I should just stay off the writers’ message boards. Posted a fix of one problem, and found another. My ex-Marines apparently should not continue using the military protocols–saluting, sir, etc.–after being discharged from the service, even though it seems completely natural to me to write them that way.
So you guessed it, another major edit. At least none of the plot really depends on this, so I don’t have to re-write…TG!
Had myself all stressed out, trying to edit for her accent and the protocol thing, but I realized what I was doing and backed off. You really can’t do two major edits at once, no matter how much time it saves. At least I can’t. There’s a guy on the boards who likes to read 10-15 books at once. He probably could do all his editing at once. Probably why he’s published…
I will be published too. I will. If I have to shoot Geeld before he gets to the airlock to keep him from screwing things up.