Editing

I got my first official editing job today. My dad is a programmer and I am editing the Help file for his newest programme. It’s exciting, but actually quite hard work. He sent through a style guide that it has to adhere to, which I should have looked at before I changed ‘dialog’ to ‘dialogue’ through the whole thing. ‘Dialog’ just looks so stupid, but apparently it is the correct form for this kind of thing. Another couple of hours and I should be able to get it finished .

I haven’t had time to do any writing today, but I did go shopping for my uni stationery. I love buying nice clean crisp books and shiny new pens even if they only stay that way for a week or so.

I’ve also been reading my Viking text book, but I’m kind over over it. I hoped to finish it today because I need to go to uni tomorrow but no luck. You can’t win them all. it just doesn’t feel like I have exams in a week, which is a very dangerous issue, I need the pressure to study. So, I am determined to stay at uni until the 4pm bus, no slacking off early or giving in to the desire to spend time with Dale instead of ensuring I actually pass my exams. But I might take my short story in with me so I have something to work on when I am dying of over exposure to text books .

Chapter 1 completed

Yay! I have finished the re-write of my first chapter of Forbidden Knowledge. A huge milestone for me, and for the novel; it’s 8680 words! It became easier when I stopped deviating from the original version. Then I could do some quick copying and pasting . I found it much easier to work through what I had already written and make it work with the new version than trying to write new scenes that were somehow supposed to fit and not stray from the story. I had a few O.o moments, but nothing like giving a character a sleeping potion to stop him in his tracks .

Was able to get out and enjoy the sun today too, which was nice. Bought some new clothes for summer because one pair of shorts just won’t cut it (if only I could have stopped once I found some shorts lol).

Maybe tomorrow I’ll get into that assignment…