AmyBoz
04-30-2005, 02:58 AM
So, four years ago, when I was on maternity leave with Julia, I started writing a novel. I was home for six months with Julia and got quite a bit of it written. However, after six months, I went back to work and the book got shelved.
I've gotten back to it, recently, however, and have been powering through. However, after re-reading it, I decided to change it from a first-person perspective to a third-person perspective. The problem? I was already on page 79 and now am going through and changing every "my" to "his" and so on and so on and so on. It is so tedious, it's completely taking away my motivation. I'm only on page 27 of the revision. Unfortunately, I can't just do a "find" and "replace with" because it changes the words wherever they are found. For example, "mommy" would become "momhis." See the problem?
I want to keep going, but I'm getting bored with this part of the editing. The good thing is, it's reminding me exactly what I've written so that I can make sure my ending matches my beginning!
Wish me luck!
I've gotten back to it, recently, however, and have been powering through. However, after re-reading it, I decided to change it from a first-person perspective to a third-person perspective. The problem? I was already on page 79 and now am going through and changing every "my" to "his" and so on and so on and so on. It is so tedious, it's completely taking away my motivation. I'm only on page 27 of the revision. Unfortunately, I can't just do a "find" and "replace with" because it changes the words wherever they are found. For example, "mommy" would become "momhis." See the problem?
I want to keep going, but I'm getting bored with this part of the editing. The good thing is, it's reminding me exactly what I've written so that I can make sure my ending matches my beginning!
Wish me luck!