Line Edits suck Atsign Dollarsign Dollarsign
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Well, I’ve spent the better part of this morning line editing, and let me tell you – line editing sucks! I’ve got the prologue and chapters 1 – 3 completed. While I entertain no delusions that they are perfect, I’d like to think they are in fantastic shape. I am very proud.
I’d previously formatted the prologue into a script, but upon looking it over last night, there were still some edits that needed to be made. So, now I am deciding whether I should try to edit the script itself, or if it would be faster to just re-do it. I’ll probably edit.
The cast lists for these chapters look rather daunting. Chapter three alone has fourteen characters! The best bet would probably be to go through the entire manuscript and isolate each character’s lines so that I can sit down with the actors and record their parts in large chunks- rather than trying to get people together over and over thirty times to record this monster.
Ugh! That sounds like a real chore, but the more I think about it, the more it sounds like the best way to go. Twenty-some scripts. But, that also means the cast will have to be set in advance.
GAAH! What have I gotten myself into?