Yesterday was a big day for progress on my book as I began a serious edit of the first draft (rather than the light stuff I’ve being doing up to this point).
Here’s what I did and how I worked:
- Opened the Word doc containing the draft (about 27,000 words)
- Opened the Word doc containing the contents page
- Worked my way through the book, chopping and moving chapters, and updating the contents page accordingly with a bit of alt-tabbing (using the alt and tab keys to flit quickly and easily between the two docs)
- Emptied the folder on Evernote which I use to store ideas for the book when I’m not in front of my laptop
- Removed large chunks of text and pasted them into a third doc (imaginatively titled ‘Bits to feed into book or delete’) which I’ll go back to later
- Backed up all the files on Google Drive at the end of the work
I enjoy this part of the process because it feels like I’m making real progress. I look forward to printing a hard copy and working on the second draft.
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