I saw a small bit of a rewrite (not by the author) of a little piece I critiqued. Maybe it's just because I've seen it so often, but I said to take out all the "suddenly"s and he left them in. This is something I've noticed critiquing. It seems pretty common to add "suddenly" and "quickly" where they aren't needed. I've had to quash a few in my stuff too.
That may have to go on my list of word processor searches to do before the final revision. I'm accumulating a few things to search for and justify every use. "had been", "It was", "they were", "there was" among others.
"suddenly" and "quickly" may be starting to move into pet-peeve territory.
Find/Replace is a godsend for dealing with a list of things that pop out at you.
Revised chapter 10 is done . . . for now. Revised chapter 11 will be done tonight unless I just have no time at all. Progress continues, slowly.
Also Where I Write fear the cables and clutter though the table itself is fairly clear.
Where I Write has the usual suspects looking over things.
I don't have any suspects looking over things except for the times my daughter sneaks down the basement after bedtime, sits on my desk, and starts reading what I writing.
My beta swap partner seems to have vanished of late after chapter one. She has neither responded to my second chapter or my critique of her second chapter. Only get one chapter, and no second chapter, it's like high school all over again.
Hoping to take a look at 9--11 tomorrow, Gud.
Thanks, Beverly.
I've started on 12, I'm still amazed by how much I'm having to cut from the rough draft.
I seem to be in a definite "This is all crap" phase. I think it's a combination of being in a part of the rough draft I'm unhappy with (which explains all the cutting I'm having to do right now) and thinking of problems in chapters I've already revised, at least I think they are fixable.
I'm sure I'll feel better about it once I get to a better part of the draft, but right now, ugh.
