Last night, I finished making my revisions to AToB. Not only am I seventeen days ahead of schedule, but I’m happy to report that the revision process wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it would be. It wasn’t as fun as the original writing, but it wasn’t the hours and hours of drudgery I’d been dreading.
I’m really glad I took the time and effort to make the corrections in longhand first. Putting them into Word forced me to reevaluate each one of them and there were a number of occasions where I decided that the original text was better than the revision.
Now AToB is ready to enter the beta stage. I’ve lined up a diverse group of beta readers and I’m really looking forward to hearing what they have to say about it.
While they’re diligently reading, I’ll be shifting gears and jumping into my Egyptian project. I’m going to start off with a short story set during the tomb robberies in the reign of Ramesses IX. I also have several ideas for the main novel, which will probably take place several decades later in the reign of Ramesses XI. I have a feeling that this building is going to play a significant role in the plot:
Codex Lochianus 