Update Links: Watch Me Burn – Part 30 | Fool Me Twice

Happy Friday! Hope everyone had a good week!

I’ve been working on three editing projects this month: Fool Me Twice, Book 2 – second draft, Signs of Life – second draft, and Fool Me Twice, Book 1 – final edit.  It’s been a bit exhausting and draining — y’all know how I feel about editing. It’s a necessary hell, lol.

I’ve been keeping a small secret from you guys — as I edited Book 1 to clean up typos and inconsistencies (as I said when I started this project, for personal reasons Book 1 never got the second, polish edit), I was updating the chapters online. So if you read here at Crimson Glass, or on Fanfiction.net or Archive of Our Own, you already have the edited chapters! I’ll include a list of changes and updates under the Read More tag if you want specifics, but the biggest change was Chapter 4. I had a Liason flashback scene that was driving me crazy because I had misremembered the show, and so the scene was canonically inaccurate. It was largely rewritten, so I definitely recommend checking it out.

I’m formatting the ebook which will be up on the Patreon next week and for the public on September 1 to prep for the release of Book 2 in October.

For Signs of Life, I’ve completed 32 of 40 chapters for the edit, so I should be finishing that up sometime next week.  And for Book 2, I’m almost done constructing my beta draft (restructuring and figuring out additions and changes) so I start writing it on Monday.

I got more information about the new job, and I’m actually starting back early (boo!) The entire district reports back on Aug 28 for four days of teacher prep and professional development (which is awesome because my last district was 1 day), but as a new hire, I’m actually reporting on Aug 22 and 23 at 8 AM for orientation. This just means I need to shift around one of the last Flash Fictions, no worries. We’ll work it out when we get there.

See you on Monday!

Chapters 1-3: I tightened up some prose and fixed typos. There are two pieces of dialogue where I just switched lines because I think they flowed better (Victor in Chapter 1, Elizabeth in Chapter 2 or 3). I also fixed some inconsistencies with ages. The biggest change is Victor’s dialogue in Chapter 3 — I cut the Alex Q conversation because I ended up changing my mind.
Chapter 4: The Liason flashback scene got a substantial rewrite to make it closer to the show’s canon — I had misremembered how 2008 went — I thought Jason was going to go public after Italy, instead of it just being for them to stay secret.
Chapter 5: The Franco/Webber boys scene got split in half to make it a bit more suspenseful, and the Valentin scene got moved between them.
Chapters 4-6: Outside those two big changes, I just tightened up the prose and typos.
Chapters 7-9: No major changes. Just clean up.
Chapters 10-15: No major changes. I cleaned up a little bit around Valentin, Nikolas, and the inheritance as well as the Susan Moore storyline, but it’s probably not details you’d notice.
Chapters 16-20: All just clean up.
Chapters 21-30: I edited every mention of Susan Moore to fit the show’s history better and fixed the inconsistencies in Drew’s backstory. (I forgot he was dumped in a fire station the first time I mentioned it, and then said other stuff later). I also edited the scene where Luke & Lucky talked about Britt to the others to be more consistent with what I’m writing in Book 2. The last edit was to the Lucky/Elizabeth scene, cleaning up what Nikolas knew and when. Other than that, it was just regular clean up.
Chapter 31-38: Another bulk cleanup of the Susan Moore/Drew backstory plot. I brought it in line with the way the murder happened on the show and made Drew’s story more consistent from the beginning of the book. I also did some minor clean up of scenes where they’re talking about the files at the end of the book, and cut some dialogue with Sonny/Liz at the Christmas party that was inaccurate to what happened on the show in 2007.

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