First Pass Done

I've worked all the way through my NaNo novel, just making notes. I took my "Sunset Orange" marker and a lined yellow Post-It notepad and I went to work marking anything and everything that caught my eye: misspellings, sentence restructurings, gaps, questions. I made notes about where I want to add/subtract/rearrange, where I needed more explanations or research, better transitions, more realism or description. That's all I did--just made notes and marks. Building on the power of pushing through that NaNo seemed to demonstrate, I didn't do anything that interrupted the flow of reading.

Now I'm making a second electronic copy of my entire manuscript (so the original will be intact if I hopelessly mess up the re-write and find the need to start over--YuK!) and will begin working through the book, working those orange marks off the manuscript one by one, page by page.

After I work through the entire MS to eliminate the orange marks, I'll print out a new copy, put it away for another week, let my brain chew on it, and then dig it out for another read. I'll have a choice of Playful Purple, Key Lime, Hot Aqua, or Yellow Blaze for my next pass through the copy. What's your vote? :)