First re-draft

Pretty soon I shall be at the end of my first re-draft of Banners of Alba. Then it will be time for a read through to see if it makes logical sense and the transitions are smooth. At that point it will probably be time to decide where I am going to make further cuts to bring the story down to 100,000 or less ( if I can). 

Have I begun the story in the best place? 

Have I made motivation clear? 

Have I shown their loves, their hates, their faults? 

Why things happen? (Do I need to do this? should it not be clear without that?)

Does each scene make a point? 

Does something important change? If not, should I cut the scene?

Have I conveyed necessary info in narration?

Can I lose secondary characters?

After all that, I'll need to go through and check for those terrible habit words - the ones that keep cropping up but are really not needed.

Editing is hard work. I can only do it in snatches before my eyelids begin to droop.