https://escapewindow.com/tags/developmental-edit/ Recent content in developmental edit on Escape(Window) Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08-31-august-in-writing/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08-31-august-in-writing/ So much to do, so little time I finished nearly all of my draft 6 outline refactor, but progress has slowed to a crawl. I’m going to start writing and address the rest as I go. Ironically, mid-month I was champing at the bit to get to drafting. Now that I believe I’m ready, life has left me distracted and unfocused. Part of this is the fundamental disagreement I have with my developmental editor that strikes at the core of the book. https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08-01-july-in-writing/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-08-01-july-in-writing/ Manuscript progress In the first half of the month, I finished refactoring the 1st POV’s outline; I’m pleased with how it turned out. The story will be stronger for it. In the second, I received my developmental edit back! Lots of great feedback here: some that I enjoyed hearing, others that I needed to hear. I took some time absorbing it and responding. We’ll discuss in the coming days. https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-05-31-may-in-writing/ Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-05-31-may-in-writing/ Manuscript progress I had named my end-of-April milestone 4.0b1; I needed to do a read-through to catch any issues before completing the fourth draft. I finished that read-through in May, but the changes were extensive: a number of chapter and scene reorders, with a number of major scene rewrites. I retroactively renamed 4.0b1 to 4.0, and labeled my latest changes the fifth draft. I submitted the fifth draft to my beta reader and developmental editor [! https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-04-30-april-in-writing/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escapewindow.com/blog/2025-04-30-april-in-writing/ Fourth Draft progress I finished the fourth draft’s initial manuscript pass, where I updated the scenes with my notes and rewrites from my third draft read…I think having a hard deadline made me way more productive than anything else. I don’t yet consider the fourth draft finished, but I’ll finish by the end of May :) Developmental Edit I made a serious push to find a developmental editor in April, especially since they tend to be booked out a number of months.