I like to tweak... · 5:47am Jan 4th, 2017
Fixing a punctuation mistake here, rewriting for clarity there, I tend to return from time to time to stories to fix things.
Sometimes I miss things because of the strange mental sequence that causes us all to fill in the gaps because we know what we meant to say. That's why an outside editor is important.
Several readers have alerted me to such mistakes and I'm always grateful for it. I only want to provide you readers with a satisfying read and for some people, mistakes can push them out of suspension or immersion and come screeching back to reality.
Then there are those that point out pacing issues. Those are harder to amend without substantial alteration to a story, be it dialogue or scenes. But in the interest of having a better story, I have to consider the pro's and con's of doing that.
So I think I'll ask you followers. In Homecoming, would you like to see a bit more evidence of sadness and more SciTwi going for support than what is currently there? Or is it mostly fine as it is?
