March Challenge- the Editing Pub Crawl

Editing Pub Crawl

The First Step

You’ve finished your novel, but the celebration is over. Now you have to figure out what to with it. Ponder your options with a 5 minute word war. 

Word Count: 146  3/12

Printing

You’ve decided to edit your novel, which means it’s time to print it out. While you wait for the printer to spit it out, you do a 1k sprint.

Word Count:  1,017   3/12

The Read Through

Your novel has been printed, a mountain of paper large enough to be used as a weapon. You settle down to read it with a 30 minute war.

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First Impressions

You started out thinking that it’s not that bad, but by the time you’ve reached the end you can see the truth. There are plot holes big enough to drive a truck through and your characters seem so shallow. As you think of how to fix them, you do a 500 word sprint.

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But What Does it Really Mean?

You’ve gone backwards and forwards trying to find the solution to the problems in your novel, but you keep getting lost. You settle down to figure out why you really wrote this novel and what your novel is really about. While you think, you do an Epic Music Hour.

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Ripping into the Guts

You’re now prepared to do a full edit, to dig into the guts of your words and find ones that are better. Armed with colored pens, you set to work while writing the last 3 digits of your last WIP.

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Beta Readers

You’ve edited your novel until your eyes cross, but the plot holes have been filled and your characters strengthened. Now it’s time to let others read it and leave their mark. While you wait for the beta readers to do their work, you do a 20 minute war. 

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Final Draft

Your beta readers have returned your story and you’ve fixed the issues that they’ve spotted. Your novel is finally finished! You celebrate by sprinting to the nearest thousand!

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Total For Crawl: 1163

I did do the remainder of the challenges eventually, but not within the time constraints.