I think I've gotten through the hard part. There was a two-chapter section that made absolutely no sense anymore because I'd cut the stuff that made it make sense, and ... well, anyway, I think it makes sense now. I'll probably make knappenp read it tomorrow and tell me. :)

I might just turn this thing in Friday.

miles to Minas Tirith: 186

I have run out of marked-up manuscript. Now I have to find the last version I printed out and see how much further it goes from where I am now. I think that version, at least, is more current than this one from the critical point (which is where I am now, the critical point, which is why there are no more markups on the old manuscript, don't you ( Read more... )

All right. Against the odds, I reached page 250. This is against the odds for a variety of reasons, starting with having played CoH until 2pm, and including the moral equivilant of the Novelist's Event Horizon: I'm making small changes that take a long time to work out, so I'm spending a lot of time on one or two pages and not feeling like I'm ( Read more... )

Trent, you'll be glad to know that the scene that went missing during revisions that you asked about five times has returned. Between that and cutting scenes that don't need to be there, my chapter lengths are now officially All Over The Place ( Read more... )

Long-suffering knappenp, who has been reading along with HOUSE OF CARDS as I've been working on it in all of its various wretchedly mucked-up revision stages, said yesterday that he was torn between whether he liked the original version better or the current one. The *story*, he said, is clearly much better now; it's more complex and ... other stuff, he ( Read more... )

This is not the stage of the manuscript when you want to be working through it and finding whole pages you've marked up with red ink. In theory you've moved well beyond that by the time you get to the galleys. Ahahahah. >.Usually I don't have quite this many markups. OTOH, usually I haven't rewritten a book four or five times. There's stuff ( Read more... )

The world's most cheerful postman just delivered the author alteration manuscript for HEART OF STONE. This is the "this is the last time you will see this book before you get published copies, so better find all your screw-ups now, and by the way, we need it back on Tuesday" version of the book. Except they actually don't need it til a week ( Read more... )

COYOTE DREAMS is revised and turned in.

ytd wordcount: 373,500

The point at which I start thinking, "...oh...well...yeah, that looks fine..." is the point at which it's time to be done revising for the day. My brain doesn't clear up after that, so all I end up doing is staring at manuscript pages I'm going to have to go over again tomorrow ( Read more... )

toonowrimo is up and running. It's an open community, created largely for my ease in harrassing the Wrimos I know into doing their words in November 2006. Feel free to join. :)

ursulav has some wise things to say about vanity publishing. (She links to my earlier comments about getting published in general in that post. It all gets very circular ( Read more... )