So, I received the manuscript back today. Besides the five hours on the phone and discussing all the major scenes, he's edited the damn thing! Even pointed out spelling mistaikes... Where he's not sure, he writes 'hmmm...' in the margin, and occasional smiley faces or smiley with a wavey mouth if he thinks it's almost working.
He's written all sorts of comments, the sort you get when you're handed an essay back from the English teacher - 'what this implies', 'pov', 'showing', 'telling', 'nice', 'who is telling us this?' 'this is horrifying - nice job' (I'm particularly proud of that last one: I posted the scene on the chrons ages ago, asking fo help, and rewrote it loads of times: it was here,
www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/48801-a-pov-shift-help-needed-possibly.html so thanks again to all those who contributed - Patrick Rothfuss liked the outcome of all your suggestions! He described it on the phone as 'a diamond of a scene'. When I look at it, and see how much it has changed, it shows me how good the chrons is!!)
So now I am going through my notes made at the time, his notes made at the time, and will start the re-write shortly. I'm sooo excited...and I just can't hide it... - even if I don't like Elton John!
