Well, I started revising the first half yesterday. I'll admit I was scared. I spent almost half my lunchtime yesterday staring at the printout, working myself up to start it. Why?
Mostly just a basic fear of what I'd find, I suppose. That I'd read it and realize it was all horrible, or that I'd have to slash most of it out, and my carefully built-up word count would dissolve overnight.
Yesterday I only did 2 chapters (see above about half of lunch hour), but I ended up adding words. It was kinda fun after all. I just expanded some scenes, tweaked them, made them deeper. Today I hit the big slash, and had to take out about 1500 words where I've completely revised the plot. Fortunately I've added about 950 back in so far, and am in the midst of an all-new scene now.
I don't know if I'll make it to my original goal of 34,000 by the end of this month, but I'll be close. And I KNOW I'm making it better.
Sometime when I'm not writing and not catching up on work I'll do a blog on our Winnipeg trip. Not today. :)
1 comment:
Hi Susan! Ugh, editing can be painful, but it's kind of satisfying too, don't you think?
A friend of mine tagged me and prompted me to post an entry on my sadly neglected blog. And now I'm tagging you. Hope you don't mind!
Good luck with your WIP!
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