#NaBloPoMo Day 4 The Progress of the Work In Progress #amblogging
Phew! Almost forgot to blog before bed. The unmitigated TRAGEDY!
I'm doing my late night happy dance because it's Friday and I don't actually have to work tomorrow. I do have to work on Sunday but it's only a three hour shift and it starts at ten am. I guess if I have to go in, that's as good as it gets.
I made a lot of headway on the Indy Jane edits, about 3/4 of the way done putting the hardcopy edits into the computer. I'm still a little concerned about the word count. I'm down to 106k (give or take) which is high for an action/adventure novel. Guardian is 103K so if I use the same idea, I should try to cut a minimum of another 3k from the manuscript.
I know of at least 1k that I can chop, just by paring down on the flashbacks but I still don't want to get rid of them completely. I've tried to pare down the words within the scenes to make it as focused as possible so if I don't hit the 103k mark by the end, I may bite the bullet and sacrifice another flashback.
Or I could sacrifice the sex scene... Nah, there's no fun in that. :P
I'm doing my late night happy dance because it's Friday and I don't actually have to work tomorrow. I do have to work on Sunday but it's only a three hour shift and it starts at ten am. I guess if I have to go in, that's as good as it gets.
I made a lot of headway on the Indy Jane edits, about 3/4 of the way done putting the hardcopy edits into the computer. I'm still a little concerned about the word count. I'm down to 106k (give or take) which is high for an action/adventure novel. Guardian is 103K so if I use the same idea, I should try to cut a minimum of another 3k from the manuscript.
I know of at least 1k that I can chop, just by paring down on the flashbacks but I still don't want to get rid of them completely. I've tried to pare down the words within the scenes to make it as focused as possible so if I don't hit the 103k mark by the end, I may bite the bullet and sacrifice another flashback.
Or I could sacrifice the sex scene... Nah, there's no fun in that. :P