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The weather has finally changed. At the beginning of the week I was wearing a winter jacket and today, I could have probably gone out without a jacket. It was 70 and sunny today and tomorrow is supposed to be 76! I have to say that Spring is my favorite time of year. Not too hot or cold, it’s just right! My day started off really bad today but I was able to fend off my blah mood with a combination of music, editing and exposure to the nice weather.

I worked on the 25th chapter of my book and I’m feeling really good about it (today). Most of the errors that I’m encountering are technical. The later chapters are messy but my writing had somewhat improved by that point so things are not too bad. There’s a lot of action in these chapters and I’m working hard to make sure that it moves along at a fast pace. The other challenge is dealing with a lot of characters performing actions during the same time. The hardest thing for me is making sure that I don’t forget about X character during some of the fight sequences. This is very easy to do when you are dealing with 6-8 characters. I have roughly 14 more chapters to edit and I should be finished. The next step is to send it to a professional editor, who will no doubt find lots of things wrong with it. That’s fine with me. If I paid someone to edit this book and they found very little wrong, I would probably question their skills.

Have any of you ever worked with a professional proof reader? I will probably look for one soon.

Have a great weekend!