All revisions typed in — nothing left but printing
Thursday, January 31st, 2002Short break. I’ll do the printing tonight.
I get a day off tomorrow.
Archive for January, 2002
Have now passed the halfway mark on typing in the edits
Thursday, January 31st, 2002Of course, there’s more work that must be done in the second half. Still, it wasn’t nearly as much as I expected by the time I’d finished revising last night.
Revisions done
Thursday, January 31st, 2002Tomorrow … typing them in. And mailing the manuscript if I have enough time. Though I probably won’t.
I’m making nice progress
Wednesday, January 30th, 2002And the revisions in this last third of the book have so far not been as rough as I was anticipating. I had much more work to do on the revision of Vincalis. Which comes out in about a month. I cannot believe that.
Time has been flying way to fast for me.
Got over 200 pages revised yesterday
Wednesday, January 30th, 2002And something nice. The farther I go through this manuscript, the more I realize that I haven’t liked a book this much when I was done with it since Sympathy for the Devil.
Maybe I should write everything under this hectic, insane pressure.
Or maybe not.
So anyway, I have less than 200 pages to revise, and […]
I didn’t get anywhere near where I needed to be yesterday
Tuesday, January 29th, 2002I made it to 245, and suddenly realized I was sitting there with my eyes closed, still trying to read what I’d written. So I went to bed.
But I’m getting an early start on it today, and I don’t have a headache, so I should make better progress.
Page 175, and I just hit the train wreck
Monday, January 28th, 2002Not in the book, but in the story. The place where, in this initial draft, I jumped the shark, or lost one fragment of the story. I knew it was coming, but now it’s here. In the next bit, I’m going to have to reduce and compress characters, turn them into one […]
125 pages done
Monday, January 28th, 2002Today I’ll have to do at least 200 pages, and I expect this part of the manuscript to require more work (the first part was surprisingly clean). But I’m almost done. Just a couple more days and I’ll have this monkey off my back.
And then I can get to the next monkey.
52 pages into the revision
Sunday, January 27th, 2002This is the strangest sensation — I don’t remember having written any of this. Revisions so far have been light, but the characters say things and do things that I don’t remember them doing. I might as well be editing the work of a stranger whose worldbuilding and previous works I’m familiar with […]
DONE, DONE …
Sunday, January 27th, 2002Done … done … DONE! 2977 words, and the end of the first draft. After cleaning out notes to myself, it’s 105,779 words long. Tonight, I’ll print. Tomorrow I’ll start the revision.
