So the plan I made last week ended up not working quite the way I thought it would. The idea of there being major, medium, and minor issues and such just did not work for me. I found it easier to compartmentalize the issues by making comments and coloring them (Yay Scrivener!) as follows:
Where I needed to go outside of the current tale in order to fix a plot hole or add some foreshadowing, I colored comments red.
Then plot holes and foreshadowing needed within a tale were colored orange.
Small issues like not liking a description or needing more detail I marked with yellow.
Once I had this list, I tackled the red issues first, as that required the most jumping around to different parts of the story, as well as, in a few instances, figuring out *where* I was going to put the foreshadowing. In all of these cases, I basically shoehorned in the necessary comment/description, which will need to be smoothed in on next revision.
As of now, I have all but two red issues resolved. It went a lot more quickly than I thought it would.
The plan for this week is to now go through the story and start working on the orange issues. I am going to follow the same shoehorning method as with the red issues. I am hoping it won’t take more than a week.
After the orange issues are done, I’m going to do a read through/smoothing pass and see if I come out the other side with fewer issues.
