Revisions by the numbers

[pbray]

Days spent revising: 18
New words written: 5,043
Reams of paper consumed: 6
Inkjet cartridges consumed: 2
Cost to mail revised manuscripts to E&A: $16.06
Caffeine, alcohol, chocolate consumption: Don't ask

Mailing your final manuscript to New York: PRICELESS

Comments

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Do you do some of your editing and revising on printed manuscript, or were the 6 reams used to print the manuscript you mailed in?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It took 3 reams of paper to print the final copies (1 for my editor, 1 for my agent and 1 for me).

The almost-final version was another ream of paper that was printed and proofed yesterday looking for any formatting issues.

The almost-almost-final version was printed off over the weekend. This was in Microsoft word with the revision markers turned on so I could see and confirm all the changes I made.

Plus I used a ream of paper printing off various chunks and then either marking them up myself or giving them to my critique partner for her to read and mark up. Mostly this was for the three new scenes that were added to the book, but there were a couple of other problematic sections that were big enough where I wanted to read them on paper rather than the screen.