And the deconstruction begins!

[rolanni]

As mentioned elsewhere, I've begun work on revising Fledgling. It occurred to me that some folks might find a description of the revision process instructive, or even enjoyable. While I'm not going to put up every revised chapter, I can post the ever-changing word count and discuss a little bit about why it's changing in a particular direction.

This will be, I expect, of interest only to a few, so I'll try not to bore y'all. Revision, however, is going to be my Life for the Next While, so my topics of conversation are likely to be otherwise limited.

So, let's see if this works.

Beginning word count; Fledgling first draft:

97,483 / 100,000 (97.5%)

Fledgling second draft:

97,910 / 100,000 (97.9%)

Revised through the end of Chapter Two. Inserted the hooks for two plot points and introduced all six of the main players. Dinked around with a lot of sentences, and added, hey, a whole 427 words to the cake.

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[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I'm doing the first pass on the revision, in consultation with Steve. When I'm done my pass, he gets the whole manuscript to go through one! more! time! Usually, the on-going consultation means the third-draft changes are really pretty minor and at the end of them we've got a clean manuscript to turn in.

...then, of course, the copy editor gets it.... *g*