I finished those two connecting scenes today. 2400 words. At last. I’m not happy with them, but I have the basics of what I need. This isn’t a final run through–this is my attempt to get the entire book in place, in close to its final shape. Polishing comes later. I have made a Resolution. […]
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Five and a half handwritten pages. My brain was with me. Life is good. Except, you know–supposed to be more than halfway through the second manuscript by now… I will not give up! I will go down in very pretty flames, but I will not give up! Charge! (right after I sleep.) (Also, I had
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Ha! Take that, you stupid malware! Who da man? Huh? Who da man!? I WIN. *ahem* This post brought to you by much excitement. We now return you to your regular Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM angst-filled whining.
From: KD To: KD’s Brain RE: Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM Okay, Brain, seriously. We have got to kick it into gear. Do you want all these novels still hanging over us when August rolls around? August, and September, when it’s all we can do to crawl to work, and crawl back home? What about
Today I was just about ready to get going (no really) when my friend came over with her deathly ill computer. As her SO is the miracle worker who got my car going last year (and he gave it some TLC tonight) I dropped everything to help. I did not help so much as I’d
Man, there is some serious garbage in this manuscript. It’s like decluttering–first I started small, deleting the “seems” and “really”s, then I started hacking scenes, then I hacked it in half-sorta…each round I find more I need to get rid of, until I can actually see that huge gilded elephant statue that’s falling apart and
Well, for a while anyway. I got over 900 words before I couldn’t take it anymore. And then I got another almost five hundred. Yep, word count for today is 1399. Not too shabby at all. It’s difficult because I wrote this sixteen years ago, and I’ve written a bunch of books in this universe
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