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Status Report
Aug. 13th, 2004 04:36 pmSince I always do everything Jon Paradise says (hahahahaha), I am hereby posting a status report on The Rewrite:
Finished through: chapter 26
Left to go: nine chapters (Noooooo! It can't be that long!)
Word count: No, I don't want to say, it's too embarrassing. But you know how they say unpublished writers shouldn't submit mss. over 130k? I'd have to cut 25k to achieve that.
This pass through I'm hammering out the major issues, straightening timelines, smoothing out the tell-y parts, rearranging things that should go earlier or later, etc., etc. My next pass through I'm going to have to seriously work on cutting and slimming.
Here's an interesting relic of working on two different machines and two different versions of Word. Word 98 (Mac OS 9.2) insists on making the ms. 26 lines to a page. My Mac at home (OS 10.3, Word 2004) does what I ask—makes the ms. 25 lines to a page. So the word count, obviously, is about 5-6k higher on the newer machine. O woe is me!
Finished through: chapter 26
Left to go: nine chapters (Noooooo! It can't be that long!)
Word count: No, I don't want to say, it's too embarrassing. But you know how they say unpublished writers shouldn't submit mss. over 130k? I'd have to cut 25k to achieve that.
This pass through I'm hammering out the major issues, straightening timelines, smoothing out the tell-y parts, rearranging things that should go earlier or later, etc., etc. My next pass through I'm going to have to seriously work on cutting and slimming.
Here's an interesting relic of working on two different machines and two different versions of Word. Word 98 (Mac OS 9.2) insists on making the ms. 26 lines to a page. My Mac at home (OS 10.3, Word 2004) does what I ask—makes the ms. 25 lines to a page. So the word count, obviously, is about 5-6k higher on the newer machine. O woe is me!