Chapters revised so far: sixteen
Total words: 71,220
Reason for stopping: finished through chapter sixteen, so it was time to flip the draft.
Music: weird cover songs from Merav.
Lilly: somehow spread out to cover the entire pillow.
It's official: this book gets the award for 'best proof that Seanan needs to never take more than six months to write a fluffy book,' because it has some of the most spectacular continuity errors ever. So far, my lead has changed home towns twice inside of the text (the final home town: Red Wing, Minnesota), one of my secondary characters has changed species -- which somehow, nobody noticed -- and my antagonist has completely changed physical description. As these aren't supposed to be that sort of shapeshifter, well...
This is draft 1.5 so that I can worry about fixing these problems and smoothing out my sequencing and all that without worrying about making cuts to the text -- hence the word count creeping slowly but steadily upwards. When I hit the end of the draft and start in on the second draft, I'll start whacking away until I lose ten percent. On the plus side, I have Brooke, so that ten percent will be largely modifiers.
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. And not because I'm suffering from degenerative retinal Kellis-Amberlee, either.
August 21 2008, 16:37:52 UTC 8 years ago
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