Finishing the Revisions for The Cardinal Directive's Season One Physical Copy

AKA: Bingeworking

If you’re thinking to yourself, wait! Isn’t this supposed to be a Sleepless Revisions week?, well, you’re exactly right.

It was definitely supposed to be a Sleepless Revisions week. Unfortunately, that was not how my brain decided to work this week, and in the end, I decided to shift gears. So, this was a revision week, but for Cardinal instead!

Instead of pacing myself like a normal person, I decided GEE wouldn’t it be great if I sat down in front of my laptop for several hours and did nothing but read and revise Cardinal so I can roll out a physical copy?

That was maybe not my smartest move. But here we stand, 354 pages of Cardinal’s main text all thoroughly poured over and revised, for a total of 371 pages and 122,304 words.

Am I writing this at 2am? Yes, but not the point.

So, how did I revise 354 pages of Cardinal all in a few hours?

A) I read fast.

B) But more seriously, this has to do with The Cardinal Directive’s setup. From the start, I classified Cardinal as a passion project and a series rather than a book, and I want to stay true to that intention. This means that I wrote without much of an outline, just following the story and characters at the pace that I felt it was meant to be told.