08/15/2026
Been busy doing a whole lotta nothing✨ That’s not totally true. I finished the first *real* draft of NBTTD (the zombie book I’ve been working on periodically since 2020; title forthcoming) recently, and I’ve spent a good chunk of vacation doing paper-based edits on it, which involves printing out the whole thing, reading it through, and marking it up with various color-coded gel pens. Paper-based edits are an integral part of any publishing process for me, since transferring the story to a new medium and seeing it printed out on paper and ink helps me get a better perspective and scope of the story. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it! As for color coding: red is for copyedits, blue is for line edits, purple is developmental edits, and orange is formatting edits.
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Oh yeah, about vacation. We were up in the Michigan UP for the second time. We did some stuff alongside doing a whole lotta nothing (hiking, a boat and lighthouse tour) but the highlight was probably the food OMG. We had lasagna that was a whole meal, creme brûlée, authentic butter chicken, and, of course, Culver’s! or whatever.
