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Editing: The Amulet of Sìochàin
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| Line edits and NaNoWriMo |
| Friday, 15 October 2010 16:19 |
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So... I guess it's been a while, huh? Apologies and all that. Must be time for a brief update... Creativity Workshop Sadly, my last blog post was the last time I did anything directly related to the workshop. Other things took over, and although I would very much like to go back and work my way through the last few weeks of the workshop at some point I had to put it aside. That snarky mercenary is still in my head though, and I doubt she's going anywhere! I suspect she may end up with her own novel at some point, but she'll have to wait a while. The Amulet of Sìochàin I finished my story bible, eventually. It was useful, I think. I know the name of the town in the novel now, anyway. It may prove more useful in the future, if I ever get round to writing the sequel. Either way, I'm glad I did it, but it did seem to take forever. I'm now (finally) on line edits, and they seem to be taking even longer. But I've sped up in the last week or so - until this week I was having to limit myself to doing 15 minutes at a time, because it just seemed so tedious. This week though I've worked on it every day, taking advantage of extra pockets of time where I've had them, and I'm now on page 228 of 373. I can't tell you how long I've been working on it, but it's been weeks, and yet in the last week or so I've probably doubled my page count. This means that if I can get through nine pages a day for the rest of October I will be done in time to start NaNoWriMo. Talking of which... NaNoWriMo I told myself that if I hadn't finished my line edits by November, I wouldn't be allowed to do NaNo this year. I've participated in and completed it for the last three years, so that would be bad. To be honest, I'm not sure I'll really have the time to complete it this November anyway, but I want to give it a shot at least. Apart from anything else, I really need an excuse to write something else. I've been working on these revisions since January. Okay, they were extensive and required lots of new scenes, but apart from a couple of short stories I haven't written anything new since I finished last year's NaNoWriMo book. I have a one-sentence summary of the book I want to write. I'm really really hoping I finish these line edits in time to do just a little bit more plotting though. Goals So, goals. I'm never very good at these, but it seems a good time to make them all the same.
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