The Pleonastic Rants of C.S. Daley

It took one really late night but I did finish draft number three this week. I went through and made all of the grammar corrections my wife found. Cleaned up some awkward sections. Went back and rewrote part of an earlier chapter to make it fit the actions of a later chapter. I also did […]

This update is very late because of the wacky and crazy week we have had in Maui (hospital stay because brain felt like it was exploding plus an 80 acre fire across the freeway made it hard to get back to our room). We just got back into our condo and will be packing all […]

This was a rough week of editing. I had a few chapters that just didn’t want to cooperate. I also had a brain fart moment when I didn’t save after two hours of work and my program crashed. The crash really ticked me off because I used to manage a computer center and that was […]

Started my 2nd edit this week. My wife is reading a chapter and marking it up all nice and pretty and then I go in behind her and make changes. This is going to be my final edit before I let outside sources have a look at it. I have also continued to read the […]

The first edit is done. I have turned over the 430 manuscript pages over to my wife and will now take a week off from writing the Dark Lands. I have decided on the title for the first book. I am going with The Shadow Men. I have continued to read the story to my […]

First week of editing has been an interesting experience. I set out with two main goals. Fix the bad sentences and fix the story continuity problems. I knew that this was going to be a quick and dirty edit. My plan was to get the story into my wife’s hands as quick as possible. My […]