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Final Status Report
Sep. 27th, 2004 04:33 pmOkay, so I'll probably natter on about Shivery Bones again sometime, but this is my final report on: The Rewrite That Would Not Die 2: The Winnowing.
Chapters completed: All of them!
Revised page count: 586
Revised manual word count: 144,058 (net words cut 983)
Revised Word line count with a zero stuck on the end word count: 143,590 (net words cut 1170)
So, I don't recommend doing two intense rewrites in less than three months, but I kind of wanted to prove to myself I could do it. So I did it. I'm happy I was able to cut 12,000 words. The first draft came in at around 156k, the second around 153k. 144k is still too long but I am done for the moment. Yay for me!
As often happens with me when I've been stressing for a long time (and it wasn't the ms. so much as many other factors in my life right now), I got nailed by a nasty virus last night and am currently dealing with the flu. That sort of scotches my plan to work on the synopsis and first 60 today, but it's probably just my body saying, "It's time to take a break." So I'm going to do a serious veg thing for a couple of days at least.
Chapters completed: All of them!
Revised page count: 586
Revised manual word count: 144,058 (net words cut 983)
Revised Word line count with a zero stuck on the end word count: 143,590 (net words cut 1170)
So, I don't recommend doing two intense rewrites in less than three months, but I kind of wanted to prove to myself I could do it. So I did it. I'm happy I was able to cut 12,000 words. The first draft came in at around 156k, the second around 153k. 144k is still too long but I am done for the moment. Yay for me!
As often happens with me when I've been stressing for a long time (and it wasn't the ms. so much as many other factors in my life right now), I got nailed by a nasty virus last night and am currently dealing with the flu. That sort of scotches my plan to work on the synopsis and first 60 today, but it's probably just my body saying, "It's time to take a break." So I'm going to do a serious veg thing for a couple of days at least.