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mgsmurf

DONE

Aug 26, 2009 15:44

Rough draft of Novel #3 got finished yesterday morning. It came in at 92,250 words with an actual word count and 112,750 words with proper formatting and 250 words per page. It of course needs major work. The action is mostly in the last 30,000 words and needs shuffling. The beginning needs cutting and added background. And I possibly need the POV ( Read more... )

computer, work, rl, pets, novel 3

Comments 12

alaneer August 26 2009, 21:13:25 UTC

Wow! Congrats on finishing the rough draft.

mgsmurf August 27 2009, 15:01:28 UTC

Thanks!

jtglover August 26 2009, 21:15:13 UTC

Hot damn! Congratulations. :-) Sorry to hear about the other, crappier stuff, but hopefully it will all come out in the wash (or rewrite from memory, in any case).

mgsmurf August 27 2009, 15:02:49 UTC

Thanks.

I'm not much of a rewriter. My guess is that a rewrite would need more revision than what I had originally wrote, but yeah, the end story should still hit close.

threeoutside August 26 2009, 23:30:21 UTC

Bummage about the lost files. I hope you find them on the thumb drive...darn furballs, eh?

As a prof, you might enjoy the blog "A Gentleman's C":

http://gentlemansc.blogspot.com/

She's a very experienced college professor of (I think) statistics and she provides many hilarious and tart insights into dealing with students and administration - and other professors. This is one of those blogs I spent several hours reading from the first post and now she hasn't posted for a couple of weeks, inducing withdrawal pains in *this* new follower.

mgsmurf August 27 2009, 15:11:05 UTC

Yes, furball broke a glass vase with fake flowers last night. *sigh*

Will have to check out the blog. Possibly she's just been busy with beginning of the year insanity.

threeoutside August 28 2009, 01:11:17 UTC

One of mine knocked over a Gone With the Wind lamp I could have got $100 - 150 for on ebay and busted the top globe. What are ya gonna do?

I see the Angry Professor is back now, or yesterday.

shi_shi2525 August 26 2009, 23:46:30 UTC

Congrats on finishing the rough draft! I hope you find back ups to the other stuff; it's maddening when your hard work gets lost.

mgsmurf August 27 2009, 15:22:08 UTC

Thanks.

And there are a few other places to look for the backups. But I've certainly learned to back up in more than one or two places next time.

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mgsmurf August 27 2009, 23:44:44 UTC

Thanks. And I hope I find the flashdrive as well. Jedi would certainly appreciate it if lotto numbers were included.