fried

[dragonlady7]

I have just spent *the entire* day reading over the whole manuscript of the WIP. I don't know-- to all you other authors, do you usually do that? It takes so long... Seriously, I read fast, and it was still a good five hours' reading. Which is a lot for me. It's something like 140,000 words long. I'm starting to get inklings of where to pare it down, but I'm not there yet-- I still have several thousand words left to do of the ending, and I want to finish it before I edit.
But ouch. That was a lot of time.

Z's spent all day working on the Restaurants section of his paper's website. It's now a fabulous resource if you ever want to know where to go to eat in Buffalo. But it meant he was hungry all day.

Buh, I feel like I've wasted the day. Time to get up and do something, but what, I don't know: it's cold and windy and dark, and I'm brainfried.

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[gyen-gaoltosing.livejournal.com]

to all you other authors, do you usually do that? It takes so long... Seriously, I read fast, and it was still a good five hours' reading.

That sounds about right. My WIP is the same length as yours, and it takes quite a while to get through it all. And it'll take readers even longer--your familiarity with your work speeds up the process a bit, even if you're trying to read it as thoroughly as possible.