I Need Your Help Guys...

Hi guys,

First off, I made a small mistake with the last post. I'm not sure what I was thinking at the time, but it had to do with the number twenty eight. And so instead of correctly naming the chapter as Chapter Eighty One, I named it Chapter twenty eight. Unfortunately, Patreon doesn't allow me to take down an already uploaded file (at least not on my phone). So I just uploaded a correctly named file alongside it, hence the two files.

Anyway, that's just an aside. My true purpose for this post is to ask for help from you guys. I'm About to embark on my least favorite part of writing, Editing!

It might be ten or so chapters (maybe more, maybe less), but I already have a rough idea of how book one of this story will end. My initial plan was to finish book one, take a month off from writing to edit it, publish it on Amazon, and only then would I continue with the story. However, and Idea came to me today which I thought was much better than my initial plan.

Rather than waiting till after I'm done writing book one, why not start now? After all, a whole month of doing nothing but slogging through almost a hundred chapters looking for mistakes sounds like a nightmare to me. The book is already 400K words long and will probably end at about 450K. Instead of trying to go through all that in one go, wouldn't it be better to break it up into smaller chunks and deal with them that way? If I do it this way, not only will I be able to go back to writing whenever I get tired of editing, but there's also the added benefit of not having to take a whole month away from the book!

The next thought that came to me was, why do I have to do this on my own? After all, two heads are better than one, and many hands make light work. If I edit on my own, more than likely, I will miss several mistakes. But with more eyes going over each chapter, Its more likely that fewer mistakes will be missed.

That's why I chose to ask you guys for help. If we can all work on this as a joint project, I'm certain we can finish it in record time.

Now, I'd like to say right from the outset that this is purely voluntary. I'm not trying to force, compel or guilt anyone into agreeing to help. If you don't want to be part of the process, then that's perfectly fine, feel free to sit it out. I won't begrudge anyone over this.

With that said, this is how I plan to do this. Every day we'll be editing just three chapters. I'll be making three posts every day each with a chapter. For example, tomorrow, I'll make three posts, one with Chapter one, the next with Chapter two and the third with Chapter three. When you reread chapter one, should you find any mistakes, post them as a comment under chapter one. The same with Chapter two and Chapter three. I'll also be going over each chapter personally to correct what I can. I'm certain that if we do it this way, there'll be almost no mistakes left in the final product.

It would mean the world to me to have your help in this guys.

Thanks.

Regards,
BlaQQuill.