The Sea We Know, Corrections
Sunday January 10, 2010 • Filed in: Writing
UPDATE: the errata sheet can now be downloaded by anyone from here.
UPDATE: 2010-01-17 - fixed broken link to errata sheet, and the new beginning is now included.
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Added all the correction found by MB and JT in the print-on-demand editions I produced in the last part of 2009 and uploaded to Lulu.com. Some of this also involved rewriting a few paragraphs, a hazardous thing to do as, in the course of fixing perceived problems with the text, one can unwittingly introduced new ones not to mention new typos.
Also, on the advice of MB, I changed the name of a minor character, Gottschaulk. I came up with Gilyard. One of the problems was that his name was the first word in the book, which the reader found too jarring, but the name itself started to seem a little too much in the mouth. I decided to redo the first two pages and it seems much better to me, or at least it does now. The challenge, of course, is to get the reader immediately into the story, but not so immediately that they become so lost that they don’t want to bother to find out more. Ideally, there is enough to allow the reader to come into the story and let it create itself in their mind, but not so much that they do not wonder and want to know more. In a word, they need to care.
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if you want to read the new beginning, you can download a free preview copy of the first 90 pages only here.
UPDATE: 2010-01-17 - fixed broken link to errata sheet, and the new beginning is now included.
. . . . . . . . . . .
Added all the correction found by MB and JT in the print-on-demand editions I produced in the last part of 2009 and uploaded to Lulu.com. Some of this also involved rewriting a few paragraphs, a hazardous thing to do as, in the course of fixing perceived problems with the text, one can unwittingly introduced new ones not to mention new typos.
Also, on the advice of MB, I changed the name of a minor character, Gottschaulk. I came up with Gilyard. One of the problems was that his name was the first word in the book, which the reader found too jarring, but the name itself started to seem a little too much in the mouth. I decided to redo the first two pages and it seems much better to me, or at least it does now. The challenge, of course, is to get the reader immediately into the story, but not so immediately that they become so lost that they don’t want to bother to find out more. Ideally, there is enough to allow the reader to come into the story and let it create itself in their mind, but not so much that they do not wonder and want to know more. In a word, they need to care.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
if you want to read the new beginning, you can download a free preview copy of the first 90 pages only here.