Embiggening

Son of Music Novel (Book 3 of our Music Series), is a chonk. A whopper. A massive tome. And we’re currently making it bigger. The enhugening is happening on the micro scale, the macro scale, and everywhere in between. On the smaller end of the spectrum are the missing words we’ve since found and inserted in their proper places (thanks beta readers!). Next along, size-wise, are the places where our readers asked for clarification or additional detail. A sentence or two, maybe a paragraph. Nothing scary on its own, but it starts to add up. Largest of all will be the new scenes. Yes, even as big as this puppy is, our beta readers felt there were a few story beats that needed a little more attention. Kent already tackled one of them, adding two pages to an existing scene, and blending the edges expertly. The other two will be entirely new scenes, and as such they’ll need stubs before they’re written. Which means that Jen will need to write the stubs, which she’ll get to as soon as she tackles a few more of the medium-size changes.

What goes up must come down. Even word counts. Our next step will be to roll up our sleeves and start the sometimes messy process of editing. We’re just fattening the manuscript up so we can make a good meal of it.