I'm turning the editing corner, into the final third of the book.
I'm a little nervous about this section. The middle edits were smooth sailing, but the closer I get to the end, the more things need to line up perfectly. I need to make sure threads are getting wrapped up, that I haven't skipped any scenes, that everything makes sense.
I need to keep the whole novel in my head at this point, basically, in order to keep it all consistent through the end.
And the end, of course, is the most complicated part of the book. It's where the main conflict gets resolved, via multiple timelines and a perspective shift.
I hope it works. I hope I can hold it all together.
Because if I can, if I do, then this round of edits will be finished. And I can start sending it out to beta readers, to finally get feedback from another pair of eyeballs than mine.
And maybe, just maybe, have their reviews back in time to make final adjustments, and have it ready to send to agents by the end of the year.
It is...a tight deadline. But we live in hope, don't we?
