Editing

     I'm not sure if I've already said this, but I am not one for editing. Not at all.
     I have already said that I plan on self publishing my books. Now, self publishing may be considered easy, or a cop out, or a way to deal with failure. However, that is not the case. There is so much more that goes in to self publishing that no one knows, cares to know, and so on. I will get into this on another blog when I get farther into the process.
     Right now, the guy who is designing my covers is already at it, so that leaves me with the task of perfecting the book so it is ready when the cover is. Now I really don't like editing. I know I have talked about this before. I also know that I said that when I started totally rewriting one other of my books that I was in love with it, but I am again faced with editing a book.
     First off, this is the first book I ever wrote and it is my baby. I love it to pieces. I know that it is not perfect, and I know that it needs a lot of work, but I just find editing daunting, and scary, and mean. I know that my book is not perfect and that I truly will have to edit it if I want it to be any good and if I want people to read it.
     The first thing that I am fixing is the tense. I wrote it in past tense, but I just like present tense, and also it works better in present tense. Now, my jeez, let me tell you how hard it is and how time consuming it is to switch tenses on an 80k word novel. It's not necessarily hard, but it does take a lot to find every single word. Ugh. And it takes so long. It took me like a half hour to do one chapter the other day.
     Then, there are plot holes I have to fix, and things that resemble too closely to other books, and grammar issues, and emotional issues, and telling not showing issues. Oh. The issues.
     I am the type of person that would MUCH rather create than edit. I can create all day long, but the moment I have to edit, I spend barely any time on it. I am such a terrible writer. I realize that editing is something that must be done in order for a good product, I just don't like it, and I like to wine about it on here.
     But there is just something about creating, writing fresh, discovering new things, that is infinitely better than editing, and fixing. What writer wants to fix things? What writer wants an editor to tell them their writing sucks and they need to fix it? Not me. I know that I need to just buck up and do it, but I still don't want to.
     So there you have it folks, you now know where I stand on creating vs. editing. I hope you enjoyed my rant. Tata.