Quantum Harry
I'm in the process of doing a simultaneous final edit and footnoting operation on Quantum Harry, all 500 pages and 116,357 words of it. With any luck, it'll be ready for Alpha Readers soon!
The real problem I'm running into, though, is that in my other reading (for pleasure) I keep running across things that I feel like I need to cite in QH. For instance, I'm currently reading Diana Wynne Jones' Witch Week. OMYGOD, so much metaphorical queerness! That's definitely going to affect Chapter Seven, to say nothing of what other aspects of the plot and the world-building are going to do to other chapters. (I'm also enjoying Witch Week for itself, though, far more than the other Chrestomanci-world books, which didn't grab me as much.)
Fortunately, I'm doing the footnoting by chapter (beginning with 1 again for each), since they're technically endnotes, not footnotes. So if I need to add a handful here or there I'll just be renumbering for the chapter, not the entire book.
Anyway, I completed the re-edit of the Introduction tonight, cut out two pages of text and properly cited 27 sources. I've actually already got a lot of the sources cited in the text itself, so I'm mainly properly formatting the information, removing it from the text and putting it in a separate endnote file. Only 21 chapters and 483 pages to go!
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The real problem I'm running into, though, is that in my other reading (for pleasure) I keep running across things that I feel like I need to cite in QH. For instance, I'm currently reading Diana Wynne Jones' Witch Week. OMYGOD, so much metaphorical queerness! That's definitely going to affect Chapter Seven, to say nothing of what other aspects of the plot and the world-building are going to do to other chapters. (I'm also enjoying Witch Week for itself, though, far more than the other Chrestomanci-world books, which didn't grab me as much.)
Fortunately, I'm doing the footnoting by chapter (beginning with 1 again for each), since they're technically endnotes, not footnotes. So if I need to add a handful here or there I'll just be renumbering for the chapter, not the entire book.
Anyway, I completed the re-edit of the Introduction tonight, cut out two pages of text and properly cited 27 sources. I've actually already got a lot of the sources cited in the text itself, so I'm mainly properly formatting the information, removing it from the text and putting it in a separate endnote file. Only 21 chapters and 483 pages to go!
:thud: