🚀The Dark Age: Muddle and revise

Hi, friends!

I’m writing this a day late (apologies), but maybe nobody really noticed? If you are anything like me, you subscribe to many newsletters such as this one, and they pile up in your inbox until you have a little free time and nothing to read. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to imagine you’re cracking this newsletter open the very second it arrives, but I’m realistic.

This is the second and final week of a vacation during which I’ve been working daily on The Dark Age. I’ve been patiently revising it, page by page, chapter by chapter, for awhile now, and I think the end of this draft is a little nearer now. I’ve managed all the major rewrite things; now it’s the odds and ends:

• Writing a few new scenes to insert into the narrative
• Finding and replacing every “TK” in the manuscript (there are bout a hundred presently)
• Reviewing my editing to-do list to see what I’ve not yet achieved (there are still some big notes here, like More honesty when depicting Philip’s grief or I think we need a mission timeline somewhere in the text or Review every character one by one and sharpen their dialogue)