busyWords: 114,399
Pages: 421
Chapters: five of thirty-five
Started: February 15th, 2011
Finished: ???
It's been exactly three months since I locked down my submission draft of One Salt Sea and sent it off to The Editor: long enough that the text now looks faintly alien, like maybe I wrote it, or maybe it was written by someone who was really, really good at faking my style. This is the perfect position to be in when starting revisions, which is good, because revision time is upon us at last.
The first five chapters have now been revised to fix issues pointed out by my editorial review, correct timeline glitches, and fix things that became visible only after three months of having nothing to do with the book. I'll probably do three to five more chapters tomorrow night, and then ship the .ms off to the Machete Squad, so they can make sure I'm not breaking anything. Thus will the pattern go, until the book is done and mailed back to The Editor for final review and printing.
It's a book. When the hell did that happen?
February 16 2011, 11:15:00 UTC 6 years ago
That seems like a moment to strive for.
February 16 2011, 13:33:28 UTC 6 years ago