Laying in the lines
Sunday, September 5th, 2010 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Spent much of the day cutting-moving-and-pasting blocks of text, writing some new scenes, chopping up other scenes, switching out chapters. In essence, this requires holding the Entire Book As It Exists in your head at once, along with the Entire Book As It Should Be — and rectifying them.
This?
Is nerve-wracking. I just hope to ghod I’m not busting the furniture.
For what it’s worth — which at this stage, isn’t much — the word count on Ghost Ship stands right now at 86,485 for a net gain of 933 words.
I’ll start up again tomorrow, after I rest my brain.
Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2010-09-06 12:03 am (UTC)Aha! Soft landings, Word-Pilot!
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Date: 2010-09-06 12:52 am (UTC)Not a job for the faint-at-heart. Positive thought flowing your way.
Well, you ARE the Caylon, after all.
Date: 2010-09-06 06:34 am (UTC)...not QUITE exactly the same thing, but close enough.
You can do it!!!!
Entire Book in Head
Date: 2010-09-06 07:33 am (UTC)Gus says he wants fish too. But mom is a vegan. Too bad. Stuck with his doggie food.
C.
The Labor of Magic
Date: 2010-09-06 05:30 pm (UTC)Writing. May the Joy of the perfect balance come to you soonest.