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A Spy Forged

First Draft: 588 To Do Items

Editing update on A Spy Forged

Ross Pruden

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A spreadsheet grid of chapter & scene numbers with task list difficulty set.
Listing every edit on a first draft is very humbling. But necessary.

Quick update. I finally compiled all the edits for A Spy Forged and sorted them with Mac Numbers, filtering edits by difficulty (1 = easiest, 7 = hardest). The idea is to fix the hardest parts first, then work my way up to the small edits.

Here's what that looks like:

List of all action items, grouped by order of difficult
No point fixing small edits if a whole chapter is rewritten!

This took me a good week to compile. By the end, I needed a break from it for a few days, if I'm being honest. So... I made another book!

Metal Mosaic—14 sci fi stories on Amazon

I spent the last three days compiling 14 science fiction short stories into new book which is being published on Amazon next Sunday, 9/27, but if you want a free copy, you can go here to download it:

Get your FREE copy of Metal Mosaic
A collection of 14 stories of all lengths about artificial intelligence, the near future, space, and time travel: Robots evolve in stunning new ways in Metal Mosaic. Toaster tells a whimsical tale of a “small” A.I. uprising. A farmer in the near future gets intimate virtual psychiatric help in A Quiet Lie. The Pond chronicles the long-term search for alien life. Two friends on a time-travel ship play with time for fun in New Religion. ...and many more!
Ross Pruden