I have reached the stage of the evening where my sentences say things like "Although arguably less rigorous in terms of validity and [the other one]..." because I am too tired either to remember or look up the right term. It may be time to stop writing.
Be that as it may, we are at 7000 words, people! Only 5-6000 more to go. (And some more research. But, still, y'know. Is good.) I am panicking slightly less. Which is not an entirely good thing, since it's mostly the panic that gets the work done. But it's a lot less tiring without.
Which is not an entirely good thing, since it's mostly the panic that gets the work done. But it's a lot less tiring without.
Good god, I know that feeling. A deadline motivates me like nothing else. Especially one that's way close.
Be that as it may, we are at 7000 words, people! Only 5-6000 more to go.
That sounds like great progress!
I got done with 25, well, at least done for this revision. Now I have to decide if I should insert a new chapter that will break with the MC POV and take a look at things back in Aimee's home city. I think I have a scene that will fill in a bit of backstory. I think I probably will, though I suspect I'll move the chapter in the next revision.
I'm very close to what I hope is the halfway point of this revision (60,000 words 11,000 words down from the rough draft)
Now that I think about it cutting 11,000 words isn't great for my goal. I can only hope my planned cuts to the storyline will get me enough words. There are going to be some hard choices coming to cut down the size of this thing.
I banged out 26 and have started on 27. I still need to clean up 26, but it was still some good progress. At this point I'm sure 27 will go more quickly than 25 did. Partly because 25 was a big chapter for me, weighing in at 3800 words.
26 is finished with, and I'm close to done with 27. I need to do a PTA newsletter and a critique so I won't make much progress tonight. But overall, things are moving along okay right now.
I'll be curious to see if readers see the end of 27 coming. I already was surprised to have a reader (non-buffista) not realize that a theft occurred at the end of chapter 7, which would just make the ending of the chapter kinda confusing (though, the beginning of chapter 8 clears things up). It's hard for me to gauge stuff since I always know what's going to happen. At a later point, I'll have to try to wrangle another reader or two and get some impressions of someone reading straight through without critiquing along the way. It'll be awhile to get it to that point though.
I managed to finish up 27 after the PTA newsletter. Onward to 28, but not tonight. I have the day off tomorrow, so I'm hoping to sneak in a good block of revision, though I do have that critique to handle.
Hey Gud, that whole thing reader might be me. I wanted to do better but life got in the way. I still want to be helpful, so why don`t we plan on me giving it a whole read when you`re done with this pass.
That sounds great Liese, thanks!
