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Live Editing
Feb. 10th, 2013 02:02 pmLet's play a game.
I have 23 pages left to edit until I reach what I believe to be a final draft of this story. It's been driving me mad the past few weeks, eating away at the back of my thoughts until all I can think about are these edits and finishing, finally finishing what I believe to be a respectable and serviceable draft. The story finally feels cohesive, the plot finally feels round and whole, and all the subplots and useless characters have been disposed of. There are, I'm certain, still problems with it, but the major, plot-breaking ones have been (probably) taken care of, to such an extent that I feel done.
But it's not. I still have 23 pages to edit and tighten before I can throw my hat in the air and let my brain ooze out of my ears.
To avoid spending another week unable to think of anything else and unable to do anything else in my spare time, I'm making a final push to finish today. Normally this would be silly. A day in which I edit 10 pages is a good day, and I'm consistently bad on the weekends. But I think I can do it today. It's only 13k more words (I just checked). I'm not re-writing (completely). I'm just tying together threads and checking for consistency.
But to really push myself, I'm going to live blog it. Yeah. That's right. I'm going to check in every page / every hour and report. Until it's done. Or I quit. In which case, you can totally ridicule me.
( Let's go! )
Whew. That was a very exciting afternoon. I'm pretty sure I would not have come anywhere close to finishing without having done the above. But as it is: I'm done! Holy shit! I still want to glance over those last few pages before sending it out to my betas, but. Wow. I think this is it. I think I can finally stop thinking about MA and maybe start thinking about, well, life. And maybe the next story.
Final stats, for those interested:
121,496 words, 197 pages, 26 chapters, only one on-page death. Which is a record for me. I think. <3
I have 23 pages left to edit until I reach what I believe to be a final draft of this story. It's been driving me mad the past few weeks, eating away at the back of my thoughts until all I can think about are these edits and finishing, finally finishing what I believe to be a respectable and serviceable draft. The story finally feels cohesive, the plot finally feels round and whole, and all the subplots and useless characters have been disposed of. There are, I'm certain, still problems with it, but the major, plot-breaking ones have been (probably) taken care of, to such an extent that I feel done.
But it's not. I still have 23 pages to edit and tighten before I can throw my hat in the air and let my brain ooze out of my ears.
To avoid spending another week unable to think of anything else and unable to do anything else in my spare time, I'm making a final push to finish today. Normally this would be silly. A day in which I edit 10 pages is a good day, and I'm consistently bad on the weekends. But I think I can do it today. It's only 13k more words (I just checked). I'm not re-writing (completely). I'm just tying together threads and checking for consistency.
But to really push myself, I'm going to live blog it. Yeah. That's right. I'm going to check in every page / every hour and report. Until it's done. Or I quit. In which case, you can totally ridicule me.
( Let's go! )
Whew. That was a very exciting afternoon. I'm pretty sure I would not have come anywhere close to finishing without having done the above. But as it is: I'm done! Holy shit! I still want to glance over those last few pages before sending it out to my betas, but. Wow. I think this is it. I think I can finally stop thinking about MA and maybe start thinking about, well, life. And maybe the next story.
Final stats, for those interested:
121,496 words, 197 pages, 26 chapters, only one on-page death. Which is a record for me. I think. <3
