Whether you edit as you go, or, edit after finishing the first draft, or, re-publishing your manuscript, this thread is for you.
Even if you are hiring at editor, you still may need to do some self-editing before you send your manuscript.
So, whether you are self-editing entirely or getting it done professionally, for the sake of publishing or re-publishing, logging your EIP status here will bring more focus to your WIP.
The format is:
EIP: X.Y.Z
Where X is the pass number, Y is the chapter number, and Z is the page number.
For example: 3.12.150 would mean that you are doing the third edit pass, and you need to begin editing from chapter 12, page 150, when you start your next Writing Editing Publishing (WEP) session.
If you edit as you go, that is, even before you get the first pass done, you need to mark the pass number as zero. Sometimes, if we are not in a mood to write, we can at least spend that time on editing. So, you have been "at it" after all. And that is much better than idling out. Moreover, things get easier once the first draft gets done.
Edit:
If you got prologue and epilogue in your story, use P and E respectively, in place of chapters.
Examples:
2.P.75
2.E.623
If you are dividing the chapters into parts, the format would be: X.Y1.Y2.Z, where X denotes pass number, Y1 the part number, Y2 the chapter number, and Z the page number.
Example:
2.5.115.1126 would mean you need to resume your second pass editing from part 5, chapter 115, page 1126, for your next WEP session.
Notes:
If you once again re-edit from scratch or from an earlier page, during an unfinished pass, your score doesn't change. It also ensures that you don't waste too much time on over-editing.
If you are reverse editing, it doesn't change pass number, only that the chapter number and page number keeps decreasing in the log.
If you are "Chaos Editing", that is, jumping around chapters in random fashion, for sake of gestalt therapy or due to sudden world insights, there is nothing to worry as the edit log knows how you have bounced around inside the manuscript. It keeps you on track. Thus there won't be any redundancy. This is also useful if you are using Writing softwares that allow you to pull chapters in any fashion from the dashboard.
Edit to add:
Format for tracking multiple WIPs:
X1.Y1.Z1 || X2. Y2. Z2 || X3. Y3. Z3
... and so on.
As you can see, I have used '||' symbol to indicate parallel processing of multiple book projects.
Format for reverse editing is:
EIP: << X. Y. Z
Format for pre-order:
EIP: X.Y.Z @ Pre-Order