Jun 30, 2008 07:10
I am behind on everything. I have far too many words for my short story and not enough for the long one. I wrote the short, and it became 27000 words, then I cut it back down to about 9000 and it keeps threatening to go up every time I revise to take things out. The story is a little mixed up because I tried to condense the good ideas from 27000 into 9000 and so not there is this mass of super-sweet goo... too much description that is is going beyond gettting in the way of plot and starting to pull out guns and take karate. I tried to set another goal for myself for the long story (it involved filling out some holes in the plot and expanding on a vital character or two). I failed that one because I have been focusing on work too much (which is a good thing, but... you understand).
So. New goals. Revise the short and fill in some holes in the long. The short is ultimately due July 20th, so the 19th is the due date to have absolutely everything done by then. Revise, Rewrite, Rework... whatever it takes. And don't let the long go stagnant.
I'll post something more if I can think of it. Heh... Heh....