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[joshcryer]

151. To be sure, while editing can be as much as half or more of the process...

...if you're writing and have a good vision an editor is not going to be necessary. Go and look at something like Twilight, or heck, even the lauded Hunger Games where a friend of mine points out that continuity was missed by the editor (one point Katniss says it's stuffy on a train car and a little while later they're in an open air car is one example, no editor worth their salt should've overlooked that).

For me I have learned that story-boarding is a really effective way to maintain cohesiveness. Initially I did not want to approach it so systematically because I just wanted the words to flow, but after 10-15k words you start to lose track of things. Since I began taking the entire process in a more methodical way the thoughts that I've had flow more clearly and less juvenile (the first draft of my book got to over 50k words and it was worse than fanfic as I look back, I actually deleted it because it was so bad, I did keep a few quirky one liners but they make up less than a few thousand words). It also serves as a Bible of sorts because as the trees expand outward you can automatically see where connections can be made and where various plot points can more easily go. I also find that it fits well with my imagination as I can quite literally close my eyes and "see" what is happening.

UML book writing! It's the future.