I am revising. I thought I was almost done with this book, but after reading it, I saw that I needed to raise the stakes and so as I’m going through it again, I am adding and streamlining one particular facet of the story. Still, for the most part, this is a “near the finish line” revision, which means, mostly I’m reading and fixing a word here or a sentence there.

What just struck me as odd is how truly familiar I’ve become with the piece as a whole. I just opened the document and wanted to get to page 193. The easiest way to do this is to open the Find feature and put in a word from that page and voila, it takes you right to it. Of course, if you choose a word you’ve used fifty times, then it doesn’t really work. So I looked at this page and saw, “nightstand” and I thought to myself, “hmm…don’t think I’ve used that word anywhere else” and so I put it in and it took me right to page 193. How in the world do I know this? I mean, nightstand is not exactly an uncommon word! Just a minute ago I put in “lanky” and it took me not where I wanted to go, but to a page a few before it where I had just used lanky! I have this thing about using words like that more than once, especially that close together, and so I changed one of them.

Yesterday I was reading a part where a character gets introduced to another one and I kept thinking, “but they already know each other from that party” and then I realized the party wasn’t for another five chapters.

I think the truth is I might be going crazy! I just thought I’d share!