1,395 words to go. I want to get this story finished TONIGHT, so I can have all of tomorrow for revisions. Aaauugh. Also, I am apparently incapable of remembering how to spell homunculi, no matter how often it appears in the story.
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The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
... aaaand done. Off the story goes to the beta readers. If GoogleDocs starts behaving, that is.
I've never tried google docs for my betas...how does this magical thing work?
Clicky the linky, log in to google, edit as usual but with no emailing pages back and forth. It's very easy.
Does Google docs track changes?
Chipping away at revised chapter 15 now. I keep wanting to get to the next chapter of the rough draft, then when I get there I want to get to the next one.
I'm gonna try to really condense the next two chapters of the rough draft to tighten things up, but the days of throwing out page after page from the rough draft may be ending. There is a lot less unneeded junk now.
Four more rough draft chapters, two of them short, and I'll hit the middle part of the story where the plot goes into overdrive. I'm looking forward to getting there.
Gudanov, it can track changes under 'revision history' in Tools
Nifty, it's nice to know that Google docs does that. It doesn't sound as hidden as OpenOffice's. Not that I'm going to shift to using something other than MS Word.
I may pick up another beta swap reader. She approached me about it, but is concerned about the size of my book. We shall see.
I don't want to get over-committed, but I appear to be going along about an order of magnitude faster than my current beta swap partner.
Speaking of over commitment I'm starting to really kick around an idea for another unrelated book. Must. finish. current. book.
Why is current chapter going so slow? Maybe I'm trying to compress too many little plot points into too few words.
Sometimes, writing by hand's just the only way to break through a block.
My hands hurt, but I've got a better handle on what I'm doing.
I think.