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Good Evening 2/7/2026

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 7 Feb

I know I've been absent for the past week. I've been busy. I've been editing and revising Wilderness Challenge, the first in a four-part series. With AIs help, I figured out how to make a clean break between Wilderness Challenge...

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30 January - What I'm Thankful for Today

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 30 Jan

Good evening from Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. It's 12 F and feels like -10 F. It's getting warmer. We're on the plus side of the thermometer. It's been a good day. I'm thankful I could be here and get the notifications finished...

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12 January - What I'm Thankful for Today

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 12 Jan

Good evening from melting Green Bay, Wisconsin. Today has been a good day. I think I got done everything I planned to do today, which was basically to work on my book and do notifications. I'm thankful for the time I was here...

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Time to Leave You

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 9 Oct 23

For the time being. I'm finished with the notifications. It's time to take the rest of my steps and start work on Destination Love. My goal is to reach chapter 13. We'll see how it goes. It would be great if I could get more...

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Rewriting a book after publishing

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 23 Jun 23

Have writers ever edited or rewritten a book after it has been published? This is a question I asked Google today. I have been contemplating revising and issuing my River Dream trilogy as one long novel with 3 parts. There is...

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I Used to Copy and Re-Copy

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 6 Apr 23

When I was in grade school and up into junior high and high school, I used to copy and recopy my papers, making sure they were neat. (A little editing never hurts) This was before we had computers, copiers, and such. I was a...

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Not to be picky

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169436) • United States 6 Apr 23

There are some sites where I read gossipy type articles. My guilty pleasure. I dislike that whoever farms out or selects these articles definitely does not edit them. I am American and I speak American English, as do the...

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A Good Day of Editing

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 11 Mar 23

I was able to get through 10 chapters of SETTING FRIDAY FREE today. By dinner time, I was ready to call it a day. K's project today was painting the kitchen. She finished most of it. I helped move some of the things out way and,...

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Got the Editor's Notes

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 31 Jan 23

My editor actually emailed me his notes on the manuscript for my next Kindle Short Read on Sunday. I didn't look at them until yesterday. I will say this, he is thorough. I was glad to see there were few grammar or spelling...

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Editing a Video

Eli The Guard @DevMrSamEleazar (14164) • Philippines 17 Sep 22

Hello mylot! So it is 11:30pm in my computer time, near midnight so I am editing a video for monday's presentation for the group. I offered them to just make the powerpoint into a video so we could just pause & Play. so the error...

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Editing my 2nd English Romance Novel

Luis Asuncion @luisga814 (7138) • Quezon City, Philippines 6 Aug 22

Good evening. It's currently 9:46pm of Saturday here in the Philippines. Three weeks ago, I've submitted my first ever English Romance Novel at Kindle Direct Publishing for Amazon to sell. Not that big as of the moment on sales....

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Making YouTube Videos

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21503) • London, England 5 Aug 22

I have been experimenting with making videos to accompany the little articles of my historical and quirky rambles. I thought it wouldn’t take long to turn out a video, but it proved to be quite involved. At first I would get so...

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Back to Writing...

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 15 May 22

Yup, I'm about to settle in with my manuscript. The third day this week. I'm hoping this is my last run through before I can start submitting it. I am low on word count but I came up with two little sub-chapters that I think added...

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8:46 a.m. EST, Raining and Cold, Editing Soul Collector

DW Davis @DWDavis (25797) • United States 27 Feb 22

My missus surprised me with homemade waffles this morning. It was a nice breakfast for a miserable weather morning. I have spent the morning thus far, except for the time spent enjoying the waffles, working on the Kindle eBook...

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A Mountain to Climb

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 12 Feb 22

The Kindle version of A collection of poetry that I wrote and my friend and co writer Karla Dorman cowrote went live yesterday, I have some formatting work to do before the print versions go live. I have also been working on the...

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Rainy, Studious Day in Oregon

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 15 Nov 21

Again we had wind, we had rain, we got not even a peek at the sun today. Now, at 4 PM, it looks like night is about to fall, but that won't actually happen for maybe 1.5 hours. But what's that studious part about, you wonder?...

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When in Doubt, Leave it Out

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 9 Jul 21

I've been working hard on Vendetta. I have ten more chapters proofed against Grammarly, so halfway through the manuscript. I also read through two more chapters. I'm not quite as far with the readthrough as I am with the...

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Three Chapters Edited, More to Come

Jordan Lader @JordanLader (7386) • Sparta, Tennessee 1 Dec 20

I've been working on Together for Christmas for about a month now. I have nine chapters and a prologue which are doing well. I love the flow of it but I'm not happy with the male character. With that, I went back to start...

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Coconut Oil Editing

Thelma @thelme55 (79311) • Germany 14 Sep 20

Hello everyone! I hope your Monday started well. Mine did. I have started responding to my notifications here on Mylot on my IPad. I have only 20% left battery so I thought I just write a post before I take a rest. I still have...

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Editing Broken Beginnings

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 7 Aug 20

“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) So I’ve gone over Broken Beginning ps again, and have started...

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