Hooray! I’ve finished the rough draft for my novella Innocent Blood! Complete at approximately 27,940 words – almost 11,000 words more than I had originally planned – Innocent Blood is done at last…
Well, almost! Now, for the time that every writer dreads… the red pen day. Editing time.
It sounds dreadful doesn’t it? What a plethora of horrible images those words call to mind. A slash of the pen, a line of red marks the clean white manuscript… stabbing, slicing, wounding. Alright, so I’m being dramatic. But truth be told, I hate editing!
However, an unedited manuscript is worse than the actual process of editing, so here I go. Editing, rewriting, deleting, rewording…
And then at long last, the story will be completely done! And hopefully by then I will have decided on the new title!
Here are the prospective titles at the moment:
Out of Darkness Rising
Darkness Slain
Rising Light
From Darkness Rising
Dawning Light
Can you sense a theme? ;) I’m taking a poll right now, trying to get everyone’s opinions on which title to chose, so if you care to vote, comment here and I’ll add your preference to the list. You can read the story teaser and a short excerpt here – Innocent Blood
Well, I have already abandoned the red pen too long and so I must pick it up again. After this, I hope to have a real blog post up here soon! :)
~ A Servant of the King
Jake says
Whoo! Victory! The end is ACHEIVED! :D Congrats. :) I personally rather like editing. It takes FOREVER for me, but I like it. :)
A Servant of the King says
Yes, I'm excited! It's not that I mind editing so much, but I'm somewhat of a perfectionist and so it takes a really long time…
Galadriel says
Out of Darkness Rising or
From Darkness Rising
Probably the later one. It includes more suspense about who will win, darkness or light.
A Servant of the King says
Thanks for your feedback Galadriel… I've been kind of leaning towards those myself, but I still wanted to get other opinions.
Adam Terrell says
I like what the story is based on in Isaiah. There's a perfect theme song for it from Handel's Messiah too!
"I'm somewhat of a perfectionist[,] and so it takes a really long time."
Isn't that a good thing? You missed a comma, by the way. (Mua-ha-ha!) Well, I'll edit it for you after you're done re-wording everything. Not only am I a perfectionist, I love editing and grammar.
Andrew K. York says
I don't like editing much me'self but it is needed if you want a manuscript to be published.
I like the title 'Darkness Slain'.