In which the penultimate draft is done

[rolanni]

Last night I finished the penultimate draft of Carousel Seas, the last book in the Archers Beach trilogy.  Now the manuscript (and the author) get a couple days to breathe before I dive in among the commas for a last pass.

Also?  I get to clean off my desk.  The picture below is your reminder that creativity is messy.

The desk at the end of the draft

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Progress on Carousel Seas

100,358/100,000 words OR 100.36% complete

Here ends the penultimate draft

Comments

[cgbookcat1.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

What type of keyboard is that? It looks extremely comfortable.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The keyboard is a Kinesis Advantage. It is, I think, my third Kinesis keyboard, going back. . .23? years. I have tendinitis in my wrists -- one of the hazards of the job -- and dangling my fingers down into the little pockets helps keep the strain off.

I love this keyboard, but -- a word of warning. If you are what in my day was called a "touch typist" (which means you type with all ten fingers from the home-row position and don't need to look at the keys when you type), the learning curve is a beast. The only reason I didn't throw myself off a tall building during the first three weeks with the first Kinesis was the lack of tall buildings in my part of Maine...