Chapters revised so far: twenty-eight
Total words: 71,225
Reason for stopping: I, uh, sort of ran out of book.
Music: weird cover songs from Merav.
Lilly: prowling madly about the room.
So I'm having a minor surgical procedure tomorrow -- a lumbar epidural, to help with my back pain issues -- and that means I'm all wound-up and twitchy. Wound tighter than a cheap cuckoo clock, that's me. And when I get wound-up, I either watch horror movies, or I write. Since the television is currently in use, well...
Draft 1.5 is now essentially done. Oh, I'll be sending it to my proofreaders for another pass, and I'll give it a week or so before I tackle it again, but it's time to stop playing about with fractions: it's time to commit to writing a second draft of the book. That's going to mean a loss of something like seven thousand words (and yes, Brooke, many of them will be 'largely'), and probably some changes that I can't even guess at yet, but the fabulous thing is?
You can't have a second draft without having a first draft. And now that I've finished laying down the spit and polish and plaster on the book as it currently stands, I feel like I really have a first draft. And I like it.
Finishing books is awesome.
August 22 2008, 14:58:23 UTC 8 years ago
*hugs you*
August 23 2008, 00:36:04 UTC 8 years ago