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Mar. 10th, 2006 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7Wrote 2300 words last night to replace the 2500 I deleted. Pleasing, as it moves the story along faster. Unpleasing is my nagging feeling that I am going to have to make very extensive (ie tens of thousands of words) cuts to this first half somehow, and I don't know where to start.
I may have to submit the thing to beta reading at an unreasonable length. I hope to God somebody out there is willing to slog through something 1.5 times too long. I don't know where to start.
I am nearly done with the gluing-together bit, though. I need two points covered in it, an announcement and a question, and possibly a third descriptive thing in the tying-together scene just to make sure everything's set up, and then Part II starts with an action scene and goes on from there in a 45,000-word segment I've already written. Then I'll just need to do the climax, and then it'll be done. And of those three things I've gotten almost up to the announcement, although as my POV char doesn't want to hear it he's been doing some delaying.
But. I have to leave in about 15 minutes for work, since I'm working an extra day as a favor to a senior co-worker. This is a rude shock to Z. It'll be the first time in two or three weeks he'll have had to take the bus to work at all. I think he's getting spoiled.
And then I'm working for the next four consecutive days. I can get things written on work days, but only on bus-taking work days, and as there are no buses on weekends... Well, I can pretty much write my 16-hours-of-work weekends off as a total wash.
I may have to submit the thing to beta reading at an unreasonable length. I hope to God somebody out there is willing to slog through something 1.5 times too long. I don't know where to start.
I am nearly done with the gluing-together bit, though. I need two points covered in it, an announcement and a question, and possibly a third descriptive thing in the tying-together scene just to make sure everything's set up, and then Part II starts with an action scene and goes on from there in a 45,000-word segment I've already written. Then I'll just need to do the climax, and then it'll be done. And of those three things I've gotten almost up to the announcement, although as my POV char doesn't want to hear it he's been doing some delaying.
But. I have to leave in about 15 minutes for work, since I'm working an extra day as a favor to a senior co-worker. This is a rude shock to Z. It'll be the first time in two or three weeks he'll have had to take the bus to work at all. I think he's getting spoiled.
And then I'm working for the next four consecutive days. I can get things written on work days, but only on bus-taking work days, and as there are no buses on weekends... Well, I can pretty much write my 16-hours-of-work weekends off as a total wash.
