Sorry I haven’t written lately, but I’ve been mad busy editing Prodigies on the advice of my editor. Whew! The hardest part is what I’m in the middle of — eradicating “was, were, have, had” from my document. One can’t eliminate all of them, and one has to restructure sentences to eliminate them, but passive tense IS BAD.

This type of editing is high cognitive and low reward, not like turning up the emotional content or developing a character further. In other words, as I like to say, high effort, no cookies. So I’m counting the chapters, waiting to be done with this!