Okay, first day of my editing project and I think the progress is good. I have all four character-focused plotlines mapped out and have identified how they weave together and affect one another. It’s looking like the editing path might actually go Niamsha -> Saylina -> Arkaen -> Kilasha, mostly because Saylina is more directly responding to Niamsha’s actions later in the story and the early part, where Saylina and Arkaen/Kilasha intertwine has already been through a revamp. Still, I’m not worrying too much about the exact path through the editing process so far. Notable accomplishments in the one day of work this week:

I have a really fun intertwining of the Niamsha/Saylina/Arkaen climax that I was worried wasn’t going to come together well, but I can see it now and it works well. Don’t worry too much about Kilasha… he’s always been his own kind of weird.I’ve done a thorough edit of my new prologue and I think I’m happy with it as a beta-ready chapter. That feels small, but it’s 2,000 words, so getting through the entire thing in one night after doing full outlining is not nothing. If I got through a chapter a day of revamping, I’d be done with everything that doesn’t need a new draft in just over a month. (That almost certainly won’t be what happens, but that gives some perspective)Most of what I am seeing from the outline isn’t going to mean new drafting or lost content, but small-ish changes or adjustments in the existing chapters. That’s great news for progress forward, because it’s a lot faster to edit an existing chapter than to write an entirely new one