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Archive > May 2009
It isn’t as easy…
…but it’s coming along. It looks like there will be approximately twenty-six or so chapters. I finished the prologue, chapter one and chapter two so far. I’m getting about a chapter a day, because I had the bones of the story already written. My goal for a first draft is June 30th, with a readable [...]
1st draft.
Editing this way is going to take two drafts: one to put everything in the right order and tighten it up and two to add descriptive prose. I’ve never done it this way before, but it feels like it’s working so far.
Get on with it.
Ending revised, rough draft done, and now it’s time to start editing the whole thing. Why do I love this particular genre? Because it’s dominated by smart, savvy women who aren’t catty and will help you when you ask. Nothing better than that!
Rough draft…
Complete! Now I need to go back and tighten everything up, including adding about 10k words. Not as tough as it sounds, and if I made it this far, I can certainly keep going!
Finally getting back to ‘normal’.
Croup/super cough is gone, and the Kid went back to school on Friday. Mike has been hanging out with the Kid so that I can have some time to catch up on writing. The writing is going *spectacularly!* 35,600 word count as of yesterday evening. At this rate the rough draft will be complete in [...]
Croup continued…
Ended up taking the Kid to the doctor this morning. His cough just didn’t sound right. The croup cough went away Sunday, but this cough is very wet and chokes him. The doc said that croup has a bad tendency to lead to bronchitis, so we ended up with an oral steroid inhaler (like for [...]
