Oh, no, this is plenty of room for this one, which is a Different Sort of first draft than, say, Fledgling, which did need lots and lots of work at the back end.
Since it was written in Sekrit, I got to go back and fix stuff as I went along in Mouse and Dragon. It still does need a thorough going-through and a slaying of Ugly Sentences, and there are a couple of points I need to work in, and the ending needs Serious Work (which it always does), but! Summer hours at the day-job start on June 8 (up from June 15; the college is Saving Money), which means I can concentrate on the book five days a week for five whole weeks, if I wanna.
Happens I don't wanna, 'cause right after we turn in Mouse I have to do revisions for Carousel Tides and I don't have the faintest idea how to make that right, so if I can get more time for that, I'd be a happy woman.
Re: July 15, 2009
Since it was written in Sekrit, I got to go back and fix stuff as I went along in Mouse and Dragon. It still does need a thorough going-through and a slaying of Ugly Sentences, and there are a couple of points I need to work in, and the ending needs Serious Work (which it always does), but! Summer hours at the day-job start on June 8 (up from June 15; the college is Saving Money), which means I can concentrate on the book five days a week for five whole weeks, if I wanna.
Happens I don't wanna, 'cause right after we turn in Mouse I have to do revisions for Carousel Tides and I don't have the faintest idea how to make that right, so if I can get more time for that, I'd be a happy woman.