FTLOH Revisions

FTLOH isn't some weird acronym that stands for something totally random like Fan To Live Over Hannibal (that doesn't even make sense, which only proves my point), it stands for For the Love of Humanity, the title of the first installment of my shape-shifter. As you can guess from the title of this blog post, I'm working on revisions to the manuscript, and boy was there a lot to cut down on or what! I had so much junk clustered in with the important parts that I went from 122,000 to 87,000 words, just from the initial revisions, and I've already spotted bits here and there (not as many as there were initially) that could be cut out, placed somewhere else, or combined with another chapter to help the pacing. Basically, I think I'm going to end up watching Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (see the pic) this whole month until I'm sick of the movie (even though I love it) because it puts me in the perfect mood to work on FTLOH.