Well it has been a proper days work today. Start at 9.00 am, hour break for lunch and finish at 6.00 pm. I was editing all day. I started at page 103 and set myself a target of 120 pages - 15 pages an hour. Not unreasonable and I'm really happy as I made it all the way to page 244. This will save me a couple of hours tomorrow.
Now I have the difficult decision of do I publish tomorrow?
I know I can make all the changes by end of play but the question is - have I caught all the errors?
A couple of good friends of mine are working on it as beta readers and I doubt they will be back before the end of August. That will delay me a month and all the people I have told about the book are expecting it tomorrow.
I honestly don't know what to do. If I do delay it will give me a chance to re-write the Prologue as I'm not that happy with it. It was one of the first parts I wrote and it's not that great. I can clearly see how much better my writing is in the second half of the book.
That in itself is a good reason. It would be the first part any agent reads and available for free as the first 10% of the book on Amazon. A poor first chapter could mean the difference between success and failure.
Hmm. I think I have just answered my own question.
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