(Dianne) Fox Writes

Pre-submission edits for “The Lion’s Share” are finished. I’m going to read it through for typos and flow one more time before I truly put it on the “finished” pile, though. It’s important to me that my words flow, that they read smoothly. My final read of any project is always for flow. I don’t read it out loud (though I know many people advise this), but I do read it “out loud” in my head, listening to each sentence and how it runs into the next.

Usually, not too much gets changed at this point in the game. A word here, a sentence there. It’s important, though, and I don’t like to skimp on it.

I’m giving “Oil Change” (written with Anah Crow as part of the Pit Road series) the same treatment right now, reading it through to listen to the words. With both of us working on the story, there’s generally even fewer changes to be made, but this story had more than a thousand words cut out of it in the last round of edits, so there are some bare spots that need polishing.

I love this part.