With a caveat. After doing some thinking, I’ve decided I’ll keep the original editing sessions format, but I’ll only go through a certain number of sessions per chapter. Likely one session for each scene in a chapter. Any edits made after that won’t be documented the same way, if it all.

Doing it this way should let me reach both of my goals without adding a bunch of clutter or getting bogged down. I haven’t touched Chapter 1 since the last editing session specifically because I thought I needed to make an editing session for every round of edits. Having a requirement like that has only slowed me down, so now, after the first round of edits, the sessions for that chapter are done.

With that, I’m not going to be making any more editing sessions for Chapter 1. The sessions that are already there are more than enough; the rest is just cleanup. The next editing sessions will be posted for Chapter 2 after the 1st draft’s done, then Chapter 3 immediately after that.

I’m pretty sure at this point that I’m going to need at least one more editing pass for Armor of the Unburdened, but I’m not sure if I should use the same format as the previous editing sessions. They’re informative and don’t take especially long to make, but I also feel like that format makes me slightly more prone to missing things that need a different kind of trimming down. I tend to focus too much on outright verbosity and mistakes rather than trying to word each and every line slightly better.

There’s also probably some time and distance coming into this as well. You’re not improving if you don’t look back and take issue with your work. At some point I have to call it quits on editing and move on, but until the story as a whole is finished, I think I get a free pass to go back and tweak things here and there.

I overshot with that afternoon nap, but I did figure out a couple of things for making the ‘throughline’ of Lydia’s Golden Treasury stronger. Chapter 3’s also going to need a few specific edits to fall more in line with a few things I noticed in Chapter 1, mainly, some very specific things that were said and some others things that weren’t said in that first chapter.

Trust me, it’s important, especially for Chapter 3.

For now I need to focus on getting Chapter 2 written up so I can get that gap I made plugged back up. I don’t know if I’ll have it finished by the end of this month, but I’ve definitely got enough time, so that’s what I’m aiming for.