Here are some photos I took last night of the completed manuscript. You'll notice one of my holiday gifts—a leather manuscript holder my brother had made for me.

And yes, the red marks are very real. I went through almost two red pens as I rewrote the manuscript. The beginning chapters were very marked up.

Anyway, here you go:















More pictures if something else happens!

Well, it took me quite a while to do, but a manuscript sits next to me ravaged by red ink. It is 468 pages long in the way I decided to edit it—I decided to use the method Patrick Rothfuss uses on when he edits his manuscripts—and now comes the fun part.

Because it is one thing to read through your manuscript, making changes and adding new scenes; it is quite another to take all of those red marks and add them in electronically onto the computer.

So I am sure my next few days will be spent adding my edits to the electronic file. Once done, I will print it off and send it out to the two agents again. Then we'll see if I made enough progress for it to be read by the three publishers who have asked for it.

The All Father, give me strength to see this through!