Holy crap weasels!  Talk about a surge!  I’ve doubled my hit count in the last 24 hours.  I guess a fair number of people are just as shocked as I am about Meyer being author of the year.  That was the most popular post by a long shot.  So, yay for stats!

And yay for me!  I think.  It would appear I’ve won a copy of Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side from the IB Teen Blog but I’m not 100% sure.  The comments section of Beth’s interview on that site was the entry ballot and there are two Donnas on there, including myself.  If she’s going by handle, then it’s me but I wanted to confirm to her before I got all excited.  How embarrassing would that be?  So, it looks like I won but I’m not really celebrating yet until I know for sure.  I haven’t been contacted yet or anything so we’ll see.

Now onto the editing oi.  I knew DC would need some serious editing but I didn’t think it was going to be this bad.  Well, not bad, really, just a lot more than what I imagined.  My situational timing is off and I’m focusing on the wrong events, and on the wrong characters, in some parts so that needs to be fixed, on top of a total rewrite for the first four and a half chapters, not to mention I still don’t know where this story is actually going to start but the idea is becoming clearer the deeper into editing I get.

I’ve figured out that reading this particular manuscript is like reading (or feebly attempting) to read Old English through to Middle English.  I’ve said about the tone before that it’s a drastic shift at the four and a half chapter point.  With hindsight I thought the shift was much more drastic than what it actually is.  It is drastic, but the language I was trying to get away from is more tapered.

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