Ongoing work

It’s been too long since my last update. I’ve gotten wrapped up in book writing and muse making. So, here’s an update!

I’ve refined a couple of key areas of the story. One involves the main attraction ride for the Orb Amusement Park, a river-raft bus ride. The other area focused on the ending scenes when a decision about whether or not to return to my life had to be made.

That memory fills me with awareness and gratitude.

And, it blunts the hard edges of reality.

This past week, I also sent out a writing sample and a bid request to five editors online to see if any of them are willing to take on this project with me. So far, two have yet to get back to me, one is unavailable, and two have given me options to engage with them.

The responses were fascinating. One of the editors came back within a few minutes with a well written response and a quote in Canadian dollars. Another one came back asking how much of my manuscript had been generated by AI and complaining about the formatting of my sample. However, I want to be as accommodating and humble as possible on this, so I explained that I wrote notes down from as soon as I could type. And, I refined the notes starting last October on my own.

Of course, then I dumped the whole thing into Claude to see what was missing yet. Plenty is missing yet. But, that process allowed me to think of the experience as a unified story for the first time. An outline came out of that exercise. It’s a good, 28 part novel structure with my text laid into it, and it probably isn’t right. That’s why I need what they call an Editorial Assessment.

I’m not in the developmental edit phase yet, I guess.

With any luck, I will get the last two responses this week so a choice can be made and progress along with it. But, I’m still writing and refining every day.

Thank you again for your continued support!