Writing Thoughts

[meridian_rose]

Or actually editing thoughts.
I finished the first draft of the Small Fandom Big Bang and got assigned an artist (yay) and sent them the rough draft and a link to screencaps.
I've since started editing the draft - even when done it'll need a second edit at minimum, text to speech preferably. Probably a third final edit after that. You know how editing goes.

There are some bits I don't hate (yay again) and some things I've amended slightly and some minor additions. I keep making notes to check on bits later in the story as I think of them.
It's going quite well. However the worst thing is how many errors there are. Wrong words, sentences that don't make sense because I amended them but not fully, lack of clarity in who is speaking.
It feels, as corvidology said when talking about WiPs, showing your dirty washing.
The artist is also a writer so they 'get' it, but I'm still somewhat embarrassed. I wouldn't have posted it without editing of course but gah, I look incompetent.

Any tales of editing or editing fails that you found embarrassing? Errors you had to scramble to fix after posting? Do you not feel it's a huge deal if there's a few typos in your work?

Comments

[tellshannon815]

That reminds me of reading an interview with some author, I can't remember who, but they'd changed a character from Jack to Edward, done a Replace All, and ended up sending the draft off with sentences like "The Union Edward was flying". Then years later I'd thought of it randomly before reading a book which hinges on something similar - a lot of time is spent searching for a man who doesn't exist because this guy did a Replace All in his wife's diaries, changing his own name to someone else's and that combination of letters had changed another name too. I should have twigged that one sooner.

[meridian_rose]

LOL that's a cautionary tale of "replace all" :D