I just sent some revisions to my editor. As I suspect most electronic publishers do, mine asked me to use Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature. I've got an old version of Word, so this means that any changes I make appear in bright red. (Newer versions let you switch views so that your changes look like normal text.)
I turned out to be incapable of writing anything new in red. Either I keep expecting my grade school teacher to have written a scathing comment, or I can't mentally integrate the red and the black text, or maybe I'm just distracted by bright colors. I ended up opening up my trusty text editor, writing there sans any formatting whatsoever, and then transferring the changes over into the Word document.
It's also harder than I expected to tweak a part of the narrative. It ripples through the entire story, but I didn't want to overemphasize the change (why not just put up a neon sign?). I went for less rather than more this round, and will await my editor's verdict.
It was actually near-impossible for me to work on "Gutter-wing" while editing "Summer-set" (I know, I've got to do something about these hyphenated titles). Perhaps my brain needs a handy edit/write switch. Hopefully I'll catch up on my word count this weekend, but as I've got someone's novel to critique, I wouldn't place any bets...
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