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Rough Draft – The Enemy Within (Click to enlarge)
A user on kboards.com and I were discussing rough drafts and I made the comment that I once zoomed out my first manuscript to get a look at how much red covered it after tracking changes using Word before accepting the changes for the next draft.
The conversation basically began because a lot of people don’t know just how much effort goes into writing something the length of a novel. The attached screenshot isn’t from my first novel. I didn’t keep a copy. This is actually from The Enemy Within, my second novel. This draft was about 97k words in length, only 1k words or so shorter than the final draft (not including headers, footers, title pages, etc.).
So in case anyone ever wondered what one looked like or how much markup was actually on a draft, this is one of mine. I may see if I can get Word to compare two versions from Fate’s Haven and track those changes automatically. I’d love to share that image. Being my first book, it was a learning experience and as such was littered (I mean seriously littered) with red where corrections were made.
Enjoy.
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