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Editing update
I have been continuing to work on the 1950 project but I’m still on chapter five sadly.
Advice from the monastic cell
And people think being a medievalist can’t help you on the modem world!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/their-noonday-demons-and-ours.html?_r=1&nl=books&emc=booksupdateemb2
Still want to learn how to be a stylite though.
That was way too easy to accidentally unpublish. Republishing!
Editing update
So I am now working on Chapter 5 of editing for the NaNoWriMo 2010 novel, which has the horrific working title of “1950”.
I’ve organized all the scenes through chapter 9.
I’m not quite sure if I have a good sense of what I am doing in this draft yet. It seems very trial and error in a lot of ways. I’d like to be more aware of what I’m doing so, you know, I can do it again. For the other two drafts.
Day 29, 48000 words
Pretty much finished story however. Trying to backfill a few scenes that became necessary due to later changes in the story. Still, word count is kinda neat. I think it’s the first time I ever hit a triple zero count.
day 28, 45090
Now one day behind, but I only have two days left. I keep thinking I have more.
time to write final scene, then the mop up. Let’s hope it doesn’t go too hard tomorrow.
day 27, session 2, 42507
Found a bunch of new, really good OSS Training videos as well.Only 2500 behind now.
day 26, session 2 39806
written at Barnes and Noble’s with Alex, so a bit distracted.
day 27, session 1 40932
Over the 40k mark. 3 days left after today–although I admit i am hoping to hit around 3-4k words for the day.About to leave Istanbul. This is extending a bit more than i thought it would, Which is good–as it also adds a bunch of scenes that were needed previously, fills in some gaps and shortens the scenes that were so hard to write earlier. Apparently, it’s hard to keep writing when you have nothing to say. Who knew?Music for next story: Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Yes, I’ve already decided.