Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Slash!

I'm {cough} down another 2000 words in wordcount.

This is depressing because you know I want to keep that sidebar going up, making progress toward my goal of being DONE with the first draft by Surrey. However, I _knew_ that the stuff I cut out today had to go. It was weak, weak, weak. I didn't like it when I wrote it but I let it stand as a placeholder because I wasn't sure what else to do. Well, I think I've got a better line now, so out it comes. Fortunately tomorrow I get to add words, and try out the new subplot(s).

Eeep, except I'm not going to be at work for the next 3 days, so I don't have scheduled writing time. Guess I'm gonna have to make time some other way and get the word count back up!

4 comments:

Diana Peterfreund said...

My wordcount keeps going down too, Susan. REVISIONS! ARGH!

But I got a big pep talk from a friend who was all "better to cut than to suck" so here I go...

Susan Adrian said...

Diana:

Better to cut than suck. I like that.

Do you stop to revise as you go too, or have you already finished the first draft?

Cindy said...

Better to cut than suck, I like it too!

Good luck increasing the wordcount whilst caring for family, there's a challenge I can understand. I've started journalling again, trying to figure out what petty foolishness is behind my latest writer angst. (G)

2K, you can make that up!

Susan Adrian said...

Cindy:

Yep, I'll make it up somewhere. Or decide to make the book shorter. {g}

You go too!