I have 10,000 words of this edit behind me. Amazing how much better it’s going now that I’ve realized this is not the Spit and Polish Make It SHINY! Last Edit. (sorry for any evoked images) Yes, I’m doing Holly Lisle’s One-Pass. But–I’m not Holly Lisle. I don’t have nearly the experience with writing an […]
The Taro edit is complete! I shall now dive back into Ben! No, seriously. Diving. Tomorrow. You don’t look like you believe me.
…the rain is gone. Or at least, the old monitor. The new monitor…oh lord, is it gorgeous! It’s a nineteen-inch widescreen. Nothing huge, but I don’t need huge. I just wanted to be able to view more than one window at a time without feeling cramped. I have that now. I love it. Also, I
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Just sick, and tired. And I don’t mean fed up. Edit/re-write of Ben continues. Still looking for the place where it starts moving faster, but I’m happy with what I’ve done so far. I think this re-write is gonna kick it up a notch or six. This pleases me.
About what? Oh, I’m sure I could have come up with something. How little time I have to write, maybe, or the fact that every time I start to edit, my brain tries to run off. But the time for whining, if ever there were such a time, is over. This edit is going down.
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I made progress! Eleven pages edited tonight, before my brain wandered off into No-Minds-Land. Of course, seven of those pages I just crossed off. Seven whole pages, barely two facts worth putting in somewhere else. And those seven pages survived three re-writes. Ah well. Live and learn. I write much better now. The edit means
I edited eleven pages of Ben today. That may not seem like much after all this time, but it is real, forward progress at last. Finally, finally, Ben’s story is starting to come together. And I don’t think I’ll have to change him too terribly much to make it all work. (So relax, Ben fans.)