Angel, Draft the Second, finished
Apr. 2nd, 2008 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI should have finished a few weeks back, but took a couple of weeks off to mope.
There's still plenty of ugly, but I hammered out a lot of ugly. At one point I slashed a bunch of stuff from the abominable chapter five, then added new stuff in, bringing my 120k novel up to almost 123k. I despaired.
But I managed to do quite a lot of butt-kicking in the remainder of the book. The new count: 114,750 SMF, 28 chapters.
And I haven't even done what I call the "grunt and strain" draft (bathroom metaphor intentional) wherein I make every paragraph, sentence, and word justify it's existence and squeeeeze that manuscript down. I'm feeling slightly less freaky and despaired than I did at 123k.
A huge thanks to all my brave betas who read the skanky first draft.
I want to do something new now. I want to work on my new novel. I want to.
There's still plenty of ugly, but I hammered out a lot of ugly. At one point I slashed a bunch of stuff from the abominable chapter five, then added new stuff in, bringing my 120k novel up to almost 123k. I despaired.
But I managed to do quite a lot of butt-kicking in the remainder of the book. The new count: 114,750 SMF, 28 chapters.
And I haven't even done what I call the "grunt and strain" draft (bathroom metaphor intentional) wherein I make every paragraph, sentence, and word justify it's existence and squeeeeze that manuscript down. I'm feeling slightly less freaky and despaired than I did at 123k.
A huge thanks to all my brave betas who read the skanky first draft.
I want to do something new now. I want to work on my new novel. I want to.
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Date: 2008-04-03 03:00 am (UTC)And I totally enable you to work on your next book. Especially considering what it's about.
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Date: 2008-04-03 05:06 pm (UTC)