Proofreading, again

For today’s book work I asked my partner to proofread what I’ve done. This was the first time that she had seen the entire book.

She liked the pictures but didn’t like my writing. It was too wordy. There were many redundancies that over-explained the pictures. There were too many exclamation points…a sure sign that I was trying too had to get my point across, that I lacked confidence in my story.

After making the many changes, I felt a wave of relief just knowing that I had averted publishing an unfinished book. Tomorrow I’ll be reading the book aloud to make sure that it’s actually readable before I publish it.