Read-through/Edit of Book 5, Chapters 1 – 25 Complete

Time for a progress update on book 5 of the Dragonlinked Chronicles. As the title says, I’ve finished the next read-through. I made a few tweaks here and there—continuity edits, edits for flow and pacing, early tweaks to one of the antagonists for more mystery, and I added a very short scene, also for continuity. I didn’t find any big errors, which is good, and I also didn’t find any logic or plot errors, either, which is also good. All seems to be going well. I did have to rename a minor character, finding that their name was too similar to another semi-related character. That is one of the issues with having a lot of characters in a series—coming up with unique names and making sure that new names appearing in a particular book are not too similar to each other. If you have new characters named David and a Devon, for example, it can be difficult for readers to keep the names separate in their minds when they are just getting to know them. Best to use names that are as different as possible from each other. Anything that detracts from immersion should be avoided, and a reader having to pause and think, ‘Now, which one of them is this again?” because of name confusion, is not good.

Anyway, next up is writing chapter 26.

Happy reading!

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3 thoughts on “Read-through/Edit of Book 5, Chapters 1 – 25 Complete

  1. Sabrina

    How are you doing? I just wanted to make sure life isn’t getting you down.

    • I’m doing decent enough, thank you for asking. 🙂 December and the end of November were just very busy for me. As far as the book, I will elaborate more in a coming post, but despite the lack of time, I have been able to make progress on it.

      • Sabrina

        That’s good to hear. Just make sure you take some time for yourself. 😁

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