editing The Bonding

well been working all afternoon and hours later have managed to do 59 pages.
I'm Happy with that.
Its slow going because I have to read everyword and check the tenses, grammer, spellings missed words etc.
I admit there are quite a lot of changes and its a slow business.
but hopefully by next weekend it will be ready to go up, if I can get enough time to do it!

latest review and why I'm re-editing

4.0 out of 5 stars Fab read, but lots of small errors, 7 Oct 2012

By

Rachelbunnie - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Bonding (The Bonding series) (Kindle Edition)

I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the characters, the plot was exciting and unexpected and I was hooked by all the magic and love from the very first page. It is an intriguing idea - the bonding of 2 perfect people for all eternity, to make an amazingly powerful pair - but a very daunting one for a young and confused teenager like Lily to face.

In this book we follow the early lives of Lily and Carne; their perfect marriage, the mesmerising bonding, and the very harsh reality of it all. There were many extreme twists and turns in the plot which caught me off guard completely and left me gob-smacked; resulting in a very exciting and enjoyable read. Also, I felt a great connection with the characters and now love them to bits.

As much as I loved this story, I was fairly annoyed at the vast amount of typos and spellings & punctuation mistakes. Most of the time they were just small mistakes: 'off' instead of 'of', missing speech comas, etc. but they were so many on almost every page and often left me confused and having to re-read the page so I could understand it properly.

Judging on purely the story, I'd say this book was faultless. It was exciting and kept me interested; it was unique and interesting and the characters were simply amazing. However, this book wasn't faultless as it had so many typos and for me that kind-of ruined the whole effect in places.

Nevertheless, this is an inspiring, mind-blowing read full of passion, love, hatred and magic and I would recommend it to all.

okay...

Thats it...

am dropping Hope, dropping Endless for the moment and...


Looking at The Bonding, going to try sorting out grammer / spellings etc.

wish me luck as I dive in lol

Halloween

Just wrote about Hope and the Halloween dance, so romantic !!! Love writing romance and guys getting together

first kiss

I just wrote the first kiss...awww
This book is so sweet, full of miss read signals, and teenage dreams.

Hope is such fun to write and I'm loving her as a character.
Need to buckle down though, just coming up to half term and has taken over 50 pages, if i keep this up, the book will be a monster...some serious cutting maybe needed at the end !

Negative comment

Last night I had a negative comment on amazon, going on about spellings etc & how I was not a professional writer & shouldn't be selling books.

Was a bit upsetting, I have never said they were perfect & you all know this is my hobby, the thing that transports me to fantasy realms that I share with you. If I wasn't selling books I could understand,

I believe in my books & characters, and I know they need professional help, (books not characters)
god I know, but I also want to share.

I clicked on this persons name and she has reviewed over 200 books , most of what I saw dig at the writer.

A harsh reviewer it seems.
But at least it's not just me huh.

Well I'm not letting her put me off.
Off now into Hope's world of werewolves :-)

Hope is coming along

Have been writing on and off over the last few days and am about 60 pages in. There Is a joy to writing a new book where I am deciding everything about the characters fate, history etc. Deciding how they will act, speak
I love it :-)
With the bonding the characters were well established, real people with personalities that had been developed over time.

One thing apart from keep writing lily instead of hope is that is so much lighter, no love triangle just a group of teenagers experiencing a change in their lives.
It took me ages not to use magic in the books lol, no transporting or quick cups of tea lol