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Round Two of revi­sions was the same as Round 1, but dif­fer­ent. Same, in that the edi­to­r­ial notes included line-edits and mar­gin­a­lia, as well as a short edi­to­r­ial let­ter (address­ing two major issues that I’ll describe below). Dif­fer­ent in that AEV’s notes came at two dif­fer­ent times—the first half of the novel one week, the …

The next two blog entries were are going to be about rounds 2 and 3 of Soul Enchi­lada. I learned scads about writ­ing doing these revi­sions. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that I became a writer some­where dur­ing the con­ve­nience store scene, some­where between the Vienna sausages and canned chili. In writ­ing about …