Writing update.
It took awhile--I've been working on this revision pass since late October--but at about 4 AM this morning, I finished the major revisions on All's Fair.
This book went from 120,000 words to 80,000 words to 71,000 words and is now at 60,840 words. I have a lot of layering and worldbuilding left still, since I lost significant detail in the painful but necessary trimming. I need to really amp up the motivations and goals, since some of them have faded and others have become more prominent, and plant details and emotional tidbits where they didn't seem to be needed before thanks to the distracting subplots. I have the skeleton--the correct skeleton this time, I'm pretty sure--so it's time to pile on the meat.
I started working with Katie as my peer editor at about this time last year. We worked together until June, and I've made a whole ton of progress.
There's still a lot of work to do. But it's getting closer to a final draft, and I think after one more pass I'll be able to send it out and have other people tear it to shreds again (if you want to volunteer, or swap manuscripts and have me tear yours to shreds too, let me know). Then I go through this another time or five. Then I query, and the real work starts.
This book went from 120,000 words to 80,000 words to 71,000 words and is now at 60,840 words. I have a lot of layering and worldbuilding left still, since I lost significant detail in the painful but necessary trimming. I need to really amp up the motivations and goals, since some of them have faded and others have become more prominent, and plant details and emotional tidbits where they didn't seem to be needed before thanks to the distracting subplots. I have the skeleton--the correct skeleton this time, I'm pretty sure--so it's time to pile on the meat.
I started working with Katie as my peer editor at about this time last year. We worked together until June, and I've made a whole ton of progress.
There's still a lot of work to do. But it's getting closer to a final draft, and I think after one more pass I'll be able to send it out and have other people tear it to shreds again (if you want to volunteer, or swap manuscripts and have me tear yours to shreds too, let me know). Then I go through this another time or five. Then I query, and the real work starts.