So I didn't finish Part 2 yesterday. I was so distracted by Facebook and the NaNo website and Facebook.... I still got 7k in, but I was disappointed in myself that I didn't get it all done.
I got stuck on adding a new chapter. It's not really a new chapter as it is a turn in the plot, which actually requires six new chapters to resolve. I didn't know if the end of the book could handle the weight, if I even needed to add it, if I should add it, if I should put it in Part 3 or completely forget it because the book really does have enough going on.
I woke up this morning with the answer. It will probably get added, but it'll be in Part 3. I can go ahead and get the last three chapters done and call the sixth draft of Part 3 over! Whoot!
I want to have that done before I go to the write-in at 11. I don't think it'll be a problem. I also want to get 13k in today and make up for yesterday. I have no idea how this next section is going to go. I haven't been in the part of the book since April. Now, I'm having some trepidation. Get over it!!
:) See you on Monday!
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016
Even with a late start yesterday, I still clocked in over 10k last night. I have an overall total of 107,278. I'm on track to get to 190k-ish.
A couple days ago, I joined with a group of other overachievers. By being in this group, I get to see their progress as well. It stimulates my competitive streak, on an overall and a daily basis. There's a few people at the top that I'll never reach, but I only set my sights on the three or four right ahead of me anyway. It's an ever-changing chart because their word counts are changing as well. It's actually helping me to stay focused on the word counts for the day as opposed to looking at getting through so many chapters, which can become tedious.
I'm now about 90% of the way through Part 2. I like where the book is going. There's still a rough spot towards the end that needs some more sanding, but I think revising will take care of that. To me, it's interesting and has good movement. I hope that comes across.
I can see the light at the end of the Part 2 tunnel. It's exciting. I think there's three or four new chapters/pull from part 3 (one total) that needs to happen. Whether they stay or not, I'm not sure. I'm just questioning if one event needs to happen at the end of this book or the beginning of the next. Sometimes, the portion has to be written in order to find that out.
I'm aiming for at least 10k today. There's a sports meeting for one of the kids I have to go to. Other than that, my agenda's clear.
Well, I need to get the dog to the dog park and then get to work. I hope you have a good day. See you tomorrow.
A couple days ago, I joined with a group of other overachievers. By being in this group, I get to see their progress as well. It stimulates my competitive streak, on an overall and a daily basis. There's a few people at the top that I'll never reach, but I only set my sights on the three or four right ahead of me anyway. It's an ever-changing chart because their word counts are changing as well. It's actually helping me to stay focused on the word counts for the day as opposed to looking at getting through so many chapters, which can become tedious.
I'm now about 90% of the way through Part 2. I like where the book is going. There's still a rough spot towards the end that needs some more sanding, but I think revising will take care of that. To me, it's interesting and has good movement. I hope that comes across.
I can see the light at the end of the Part 2 tunnel. It's exciting. I think there's three or four new chapters/pull from part 3 (one total) that needs to happen. Whether they stay or not, I'm not sure. I'm just questioning if one event needs to happen at the end of this book or the beginning of the next. Sometimes, the portion has to be written in order to find that out.
I'm aiming for at least 10k today. There's a sports meeting for one of the kids I have to go to. Other than that, my agenda's clear.
Well, I need to get the dog to the dog park and then get to work. I hope you have a good day. See you tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
October 26, 2016
So, I did get two chapters (re)written yesterday for a total of around 5300 words. Some of that word count is warm-up and me 'interviewing' my characters. That's a technique I use when I'm staring at a blank page and don't know where to go. It works really well.
I spent most of the day avoiding these two chapters. I have a suspicion that I know too much in my head and I know (at least I think I do... it's possible it could change) what's going to happen to these two and I don't like it. I had a long discussion with myself (yes... sometimes it has to happen), telling myself that I needed to be true to my story and write these chapters. It took all day, but I finally got it done. I feel better now that it is and the whole process produced another chapter that now needs to happen. It's all good.
It's busy Wednesday today so I don't know how much I'm going to get done. I'd like to get two more chapters done today, but with my performance yesterday, I don't if that's going to happen.
I got the rest of my shipment of my book order in the mail today. Next week, I'm going to go talk to the local Barnes and Noble to see if they'll put them out. Maybe there'll be a book-signing too. We'll see.
I spent most of the day avoiding these two chapters. I have a suspicion that I know too much in my head and I know (at least I think I do... it's possible it could change) what's going to happen to these two and I don't like it. I had a long discussion with myself (yes... sometimes it has to happen), telling myself that I needed to be true to my story and write these chapters. It took all day, but I finally got it done. I feel better now that it is and the whole process produced another chapter that now needs to happen. It's all good.
It's busy Wednesday today so I don't know how much I'm going to get done. I'd like to get two more chapters done today, but with my performance yesterday, I don't if that's going to happen.
I got the rest of my shipment of my book order in the mail today. Next week, I'm going to go talk to the local Barnes and Noble to see if they'll put them out. Maybe there'll be a book-signing too. We'll see.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
October 25, 2016
Good morning. I'm starting early today.
I realized last night that I've been avoiding this chapter that I'm stuck on in the rewrite of part 2. During the afternoon, I discovered I haven't written anything in two weeks. I know I've been busy with other stuff, but the writing/rewriting is what gets me excited. I've written beyond this chapter by about four, but I feel like I can't go too much further without filling the holes. So, that means I need to go back and do it.
I've known that for two weeks and yet here I am, not writing the chapter. While, I've been finding good things to be doing (most of the time, FB prowling has increased significantly), reading, taking care of the technical parts of publishing part 1, spending time here, I'm still not writing. That means something about it isn't right about this chapter, but I'm not sure what that is.
As I began reading part 2 to make corrections a couple weeks ago, I came across a related chapter early in part 2. It's an information dump, necessary, but I think I've allowed it to become burdensome. I decided during the reading that I needed to completely rewrite the chapter. Therefore, I need to get this early chapter done before I can get the later one taken care of.
Or is that me just prolonging working on the chapter?
Could be.
Here's the deal, though. I promised myself this morning, I would get that chapter written before I allow myself to do anything else. The dog needs walked before it gets too late, and I'll need to take a shower afterwards because I have more parent-teacher conferences this afternoon. So, I have to have the dog walked before lunch.
That means I need to get going.
I'll check in with you tomorrow! Have a good day.
I realized last night that I've been avoiding this chapter that I'm stuck on in the rewrite of part 2. During the afternoon, I discovered I haven't written anything in two weeks. I know I've been busy with other stuff, but the writing/rewriting is what gets me excited. I've written beyond this chapter by about four, but I feel like I can't go too much further without filling the holes. So, that means I need to go back and do it.
I've known that for two weeks and yet here I am, not writing the chapter. While, I've been finding good things to be doing (most of the time, FB prowling has increased significantly), reading, taking care of the technical parts of publishing part 1, spending time here, I'm still not writing. That means something about it isn't right about this chapter, but I'm not sure what that is.
As I began reading part 2 to make corrections a couple weeks ago, I came across a related chapter early in part 2. It's an information dump, necessary, but I think I've allowed it to become burdensome. I decided during the reading that I needed to completely rewrite the chapter. Therefore, I need to get this early chapter done before I can get the later one taken care of.
Or is that me just prolonging working on the chapter?
Could be.
Here's the deal, though. I promised myself this morning, I would get that chapter written before I allow myself to do anything else. The dog needs walked before it gets too late, and I'll need to take a shower afterwards because I have more parent-teacher conferences this afternoon. So, I have to have the dog walked before lunch.
That means I need to get going.
I'll check in with you tomorrow! Have a good day.
Saturday, October 15, 2016
October 15, 2016
Today was a good day of work.
All I did was read. I got the correction reading I've been doing completed. Now to get the corrections done and upload a cleaned up version. Like I've been saying, I feel like all I need to do now is double-check the rough spots and call the rest good. I have made a couple non-necessary changes and I'll double-check those too. However, the unnecessary changes outweigh the necessary ones this time. I don't think those will ever go away. I could read this book every month for the next ten years and still find something to tweak.
It'll never be perfect and it's time to make the fixes and step away. :/
I also did some editing work on the early chapters of part 2. I still have 6-10 chapters to rewrite, toward the end. Maybe now that I'm done with part 1, I can focus on that again. I want to have the rewrite of part 2 done before November so I can just jump into the rewrite of part 3. I have sixteen more days. I can do this.
I'm off tomorrow. I'll be posting chapter 3 on Monday. I hoping to publish part one (the whole week) by the end of the week!
See you Monday!
All I did was read. I got the correction reading I've been doing completed. Now to get the corrections done and upload a cleaned up version. Like I've been saying, I feel like all I need to do now is double-check the rough spots and call the rest good. I have made a couple non-necessary changes and I'll double-check those too. However, the unnecessary changes outweigh the necessary ones this time. I don't think those will ever go away. I could read this book every month for the next ten years and still find something to tweak.
It'll never be perfect and it's time to make the fixes and step away. :/
I also did some editing work on the early chapters of part 2. I still have 6-10 chapters to rewrite, toward the end. Maybe now that I'm done with part 1, I can focus on that again. I want to have the rewrite of part 2 done before November so I can just jump into the rewrite of part 3. I have sixteen more days. I can do this.
I'm off tomorrow. I'll be posting chapter 3 on Monday. I hoping to publish part one (the whole week) by the end of the week!
See you Monday!
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
September 29, 2016
So Wednesday has turned into this day where everything else happens, except writing.
That's fine, other things need to happen (at least that's what I'm told) and having most of them happen in one day makes things better the rest of the week. However, it turns Wednesday into a black hole.
Yesterday, I got up at five and painted my daughter's face. It was favorite band day at school and a group of her friends decided to go as Kiss. I asked her what her favorite Kiss song was. She had to google it. I'm thinking they just wanted to do it because of the make-up....
I took the dog for a walk, took a nap (because I don't do five a.m.) and then went to my volunteer job. One son had a flag football game and another had a cross country meet. All four had church activities last night. My daughter had 40's day at school today so we stayed up last night and put curlers in her hair and painted her nails. It was a fun day.
But nothing for the book got done. And that's just the way it is.
The day before, I got 3500 words rewritten. Here's the thing, I had hopes of getting through all of the Part 2 rewrite during September and into Part 3. I still have fifteen more chapters to rewrite and that's not going to happen in a day and a half, even if I bought a whole bunch of Ramen for the kids and locked myself in my bedroom. Anyway, if there weren't other book-related things that I was taking care of, I might have been able to do that. I'm having trouble deciding if it's alright or not. I have goals, by Jove. I can't be meeting those bigger goals if I don't meet the smaller ones.
What? You mean I can't hole-up and be JUST a writer? I have to be mother too? Jeez. Wait! I have to be wife as well! Holy COW!
Bah humbug.
Today, I'm not sure if I'm going to get to rewriting. I have corrections to do for Part 1 and more chapters to read to add to those corrections. (I'm going to say again that I'm really thankful I got that proof book. There were more errors in there than I realized.)
I'm frustrated this is taking so long. I realize the worth of being this careful, I just... grrr. I'll be back tomorrow.
That's fine, other things need to happen (at least that's what I'm told) and having most of them happen in one day makes things better the rest of the week. However, it turns Wednesday into a black hole.
Yesterday, I got up at five and painted my daughter's face. It was favorite band day at school and a group of her friends decided to go as Kiss. I asked her what her favorite Kiss song was. She had to google it. I'm thinking they just wanted to do it because of the make-up....
I took the dog for a walk, took a nap (because I don't do five a.m.) and then went to my volunteer job. One son had a flag football game and another had a cross country meet. All four had church activities last night. My daughter had 40's day at school today so we stayed up last night and put curlers in her hair and painted her nails. It was a fun day.
But nothing for the book got done. And that's just the way it is.
The day before, I got 3500 words rewritten. Here's the thing, I had hopes of getting through all of the Part 2 rewrite during September and into Part 3. I still have fifteen more chapters to rewrite and that's not going to happen in a day and a half, even if I bought a whole bunch of Ramen for the kids and locked myself in my bedroom. Anyway, if there weren't other book-related things that I was taking care of, I might have been able to do that. I'm having trouble deciding if it's alright or not. I have goals, by Jove. I can't be meeting those bigger goals if I don't meet the smaller ones.
What? You mean I can't hole-up and be JUST a writer? I have to be mother too? Jeez. Wait! I have to be wife as well! Holy COW!
Bah humbug.
Today, I'm not sure if I'm going to get to rewriting. I have corrections to do for Part 1 and more chapters to read to add to those corrections. (I'm going to say again that I'm really thankful I got that proof book. There were more errors in there than I realized.)
I'm frustrated this is taking so long. I realize the worth of being this careful, I just... grrr. I'll be back tomorrow.
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Friday, September 23, 2016
September 23, 2016
TYPOS! I'm looking for typos! I'm looking for missing periods and unintended sentence fragments. I'm looking for misspelled words and extra verbs that I didn't take out!
What I'm not looking to do is completely rewrite whole chapters because I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and now hate my whole book!!!!!
I don't think I should be proofreading. This is not turning out good.
What did turn out acceptable is that I got 4000 words written yesterday. I got over the writer's block I was having by doing a first person 'interview' with my main character. He told me from an 'I' stance what happened in the scene. I have since taken it and put it into third person and added details. The process is amazing to me, sometimes. These characters are real people to me and I care about them, even though I know they're really fictional.
I've been working on my drawing of the floor. I'm finding myself wanting to change that as well. Grrr. Why am doing this? Auugghh!!
By the way, I'd like to thank all of you who've read my blog over the last few days. I think you guys are amazing.
Okay, back to work. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.
What I'm not looking to do is completely rewrite whole chapters because I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and now hate my whole book!!!!!
I don't think I should be proofreading. This is not turning out good.
What did turn out acceptable is that I got 4000 words written yesterday. I got over the writer's block I was having by doing a first person 'interview' with my main character. He told me from an 'I' stance what happened in the scene. I have since taken it and put it into third person and added details. The process is amazing to me, sometimes. These characters are real people to me and I care about them, even though I know they're really fictional.
I've been working on my drawing of the floor. I'm finding myself wanting to change that as well. Grrr. Why am doing this? Auugghh!!
By the way, I'd like to thank all of you who've read my blog over the last few days. I think you guys are amazing.
Okay, back to work. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Look what came in the mail! September 22, 2016
The proof copy is in!! I'm excited! This is so cool! AAAHHH!
Okay, let's rejoice for a moment, shall we?
Me - It looks like a real book!
My hubby - It IS a real book, honey.
Me - ........... I guess so............
The cover is a matte finish. My hubby really likes it because it makes the drawing of the cover art look like you could touch it and smudge the graphite. I'm so happy the windows go up the middle of the spine! I only had to upload that four times before that was finally correct.
Okay, so, nitty-gritty. I ordered this book proof so I can see what it looked like, hold it in my hands and read it to find any errors that needed fixing. I like the feel of it. It's really cool. (I want to do another one!). It's almost like holding your child for the first time. It looks awesome inside. (There's that 'it looks like a real book' thing again.) I'm kinda in la-la land right now. I have it here, I can read it, touch it... smell it. It still doesn't seem real.
So, now that I've had it for eighteen hours, what have I found so far? First, it was TOTALLY worth it to buy the proof. Originally, I wasn't intending on purchasing it, I was going to hit the publish button and go with it. Well, the font on the title isn't correct (how did I miss that? - It's right in the mock-up). Since I'm going to reload the cover, I'm going to blow up the art a little bit and eliminate some of the white on the sides of the front and back. I read the first three chapters last night and I found four errors. One is major, I went in to change the verb and didn't erase what I had in there (Dur). One is a formatting error, I put in two dashes to make an 'em' dash and it didn't. I forgot a period after a set of ellipses. And, I have a comma where I should have a period (Still a complete sentence, it just reads better as two). The last three aren't a big deal and I might have left them if I hadn't found the first. But since I did, I'm going to fix the tiny stuff too. Might as well, right?
I do have another pair of eyes looking for stuff. Maybe between the two of us, we'll catch everything.
I made a small advance in my floor plan drawing. Freehand circles suck. I should just break down and go buy another compass, but I don't want to go to the store. :/ I only got 368 words written yesterday. Yes, you saw that right, 368. I think my creative tank is low. Time to read something else. I started reading The Maze Runner last night. Halfway through the first chapter, I was thinking "That's what I'm doing wrong...." After that, I read the first three chapters in my book. I'm not doing anything wrong, it's just I'm in rewrite mode, so I think everything I've been writing is crap.
That's just how it goes. The first draft (or fourth for that matter) is crap and it's ugly and it's full of grammatical issues. It's not until you sit down and look at it and say "Okay, I've used 'irritated' seven times in this six page chapter," or "I have WAY too many adverbs in this section," that you actually turn something that's okay or good to something that's captivating. It's part of the process. I've been dealing in the muck this last six weeks, and so from my point of view, all I can see is yuck.
| Look what I have! |
Okay, let's rejoice for a moment, shall we?
Me - It looks like a real book!
My hubby - It IS a real book, honey.
Me - ........... I guess so............
| The windows go up the center! |
The cover is a matte finish. My hubby really likes it because it makes the drawing of the cover art look like you could touch it and smudge the graphite. I'm so happy the windows go up the middle of the spine! I only had to upload that four times before that was finally correct.
| Chapter 17? |
So, now that I've had it for eighteen hours, what have I found so far? First, it was TOTALLY worth it to buy the proof. Originally, I wasn't intending on purchasing it, I was going to hit the publish button and go with it. Well, the font on the title isn't correct (how did I miss that? - It's right in the mock-up). Since I'm going to reload the cover, I'm going to blow up the art a little bit and eliminate some of the white on the sides of the front and back. I read the first three chapters last night and I found four errors. One is major, I went in to change the verb and didn't erase what I had in there (Dur). One is a formatting error, I put in two dashes to make an 'em' dash and it didn't. I forgot a period after a set of ellipses. And, I have a comma where I should have a period (Still a complete sentence, it just reads better as two). The last three aren't a big deal and I might have left them if I hadn't found the first. But since I did, I'm going to fix the tiny stuff too. Might as well, right?
I do have another pair of eyes looking for stuff. Maybe between the two of us, we'll catch everything.
I made a small advance in my floor plan drawing. Freehand circles suck. I should just break down and go buy another compass, but I don't want to go to the store. :/ I only got 368 words written yesterday. Yes, you saw that right, 368. I think my creative tank is low. Time to read something else. I started reading The Maze Runner last night. Halfway through the first chapter, I was thinking "That's what I'm doing wrong...." After that, I read the first three chapters in my book. I'm not doing anything wrong, it's just I'm in rewrite mode, so I think everything I've been writing is crap.
That's just how it goes. The first draft (or fourth for that matter) is crap and it's ugly and it's full of grammatical issues. It's not until you sit down and look at it and say "Okay, I've used 'irritated' seven times in this six page chapter," or "I have WAY too many adverbs in this section," that you actually turn something that's okay or good to something that's captivating. It's part of the process. I've been dealing in the muck this last six weeks, and so from my point of view, all I can see is yuck.
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Friday, September 9, 2016
September 9, 2016
Everything I have to do for part one seem to be taking a really long time to get together.
I'm only halfway done with the corrections. They're not huge, but I have three different copies (back up of the whole manuscript and individual chapters). I cut and paste the new version in, but switching between the three takes extra time. In addition, I'm checking the formatting as I go, making sure everything is just perfect. That makes it take even longer.
Yesterday, I planned on getting my copyright and acknowledgement pages done. It took a few hours to do the copyright page. Most of that time was spent researching and making sure I had what I needed. Then I spent some time searching for a quote at the beginning of my book, only to change my mind as I went to bed (I don't want to sway my readers before they read the first part). Then I spent a little time looking up what I needed to get into my acknowledgements and read three or four from other books by different authors.
Then it was time for supper.
I got about 2600 words re-written yesterday. That frustrates me, too. Why can't I do everything I want to do in the mere twenty-four hours of a day???
Uhg. So, today, I've been working on the formatting and corrections. I got some other things done that I needed to, silly things like going to the grocery store or walking the dog. Needy people/animals--yeesh. My son has a cross-country meet that I'm just about to leave for and then there's a church bb-q this evening. I hope they don't mind me furiously working while I'm there, because that's what's going to happen.
Don't even talk to me about what I have to get done tomorrow (that's not book-related). Maybe I'll just stay up all night.
Yeah, like that's a good idea.
Rant over. Back to reality.
See you tomorrow.
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I'm only halfway done with the corrections. They're not huge, but I have three different copies (back up of the whole manuscript and individual chapters). I cut and paste the new version in, but switching between the three takes extra time. In addition, I'm checking the formatting as I go, making sure everything is just perfect. That makes it take even longer.
Yesterday, I planned on getting my copyright and acknowledgement pages done. It took a few hours to do the copyright page. Most of that time was spent researching and making sure I had what I needed. Then I spent some time searching for a quote at the beginning of my book, only to change my mind as I went to bed (I don't want to sway my readers before they read the first part). Then I spent a little time looking up what I needed to get into my acknowledgements and read three or four from other books by different authors.
Then it was time for supper.
I got about 2600 words re-written yesterday. That frustrates me, too. Why can't I do everything I want to do in the mere twenty-four hours of a day???
Uhg. So, today, I've been working on the formatting and corrections. I got some other things done that I needed to, silly things like going to the grocery store or walking the dog. Needy people/animals--yeesh. My son has a cross-country meet that I'm just about to leave for and then there's a church bb-q this evening. I hope they don't mind me furiously working while I'm there, because that's what's going to happen.
Don't even talk to me about what I have to get done tomorrow (that's not book-related). Maybe I'll just stay up all night.
Yeah, like that's a good idea.
Rant over. Back to reality.
See you tomorrow.
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Saturday, September 3, 2016
September 3, 2016
Okay. Yesterday, I was concerned about moving a certain event to a different place in part 2 of the book. I spent a couple hours playing with my timeline in Excel and moved it. I like the way it looks mapped out on the spreadsheet. It's tighter now and I can see how this is going to benefit other things that need to happen farther out in the timeline of the series.
Now, to re-write it so it flow together. I can't just take a chapter and cut and paste into place. I have to change interactions. The knowledge of this particular character has changed along with the ones they influence. It also affects things that I want to have happen with this character before this event and everything afterwards. I'm moving it forward about 1/3 of the way through the book, so it is a major move.
But I think it's going to be good. I started on the re-write yesterday and pushing forward again today. This is going to take all month. I think it will make it a better book.
Talk to you later!
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Now, to re-write it so it flow together. I can't just take a chapter and cut and paste into place. I have to change interactions. The knowledge of this particular character has changed along with the ones they influence. It also affects things that I want to have happen with this character before this event and everything afterwards. I'm moving it forward about 1/3 of the way through the book, so it is a major move.
But I think it's going to be good. I started on the re-write yesterday and pushing forward again today. This is going to take all month. I think it will make it a better book.
Talk to you later!
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Friday, September 2, 2016
September 2, 2016
Part one has been out to betas since the beginning of August. Last week I compiled the comments and went over them with my editor. Now, it's at the proofreader.
To keep myself occupied, I've been working on the fourth draft of part two. I've been struggling to work on it. I have to make myself do it. There are parts where I'm fine, but there are parts where I struggle.
I have learned with part one that when I feel that way about a chapter, I need to either get rid of the chapter all together or I need to look at it from a different point of view. Sometimes, I throw out what I have and start over.
I'm going to shuffle things around. Right now, I feel like that will help, but you just never know. Shifting chapters around isn't just a cut and paste job, either. You have to change reactions of different characters in subsequent chapters and sometimes, some chapters completely go away. It quite an undertaking. Fortunately, I save every draft I've written so I can go back to a previous one if the change doesn't work.
All I can to do is change it and see if it works, I guess.
Well, enough bellyaching, time to dive in!
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To keep myself occupied, I've been working on the fourth draft of part two. I've been struggling to work on it. I have to make myself do it. There are parts where I'm fine, but there are parts where I struggle.
I have learned with part one that when I feel that way about a chapter, I need to either get rid of the chapter all together or I need to look at it from a different point of view. Sometimes, I throw out what I have and start over.
I'm going to shuffle things around. Right now, I feel like that will help, but you just never know. Shifting chapters around isn't just a cut and paste job, either. You have to change reactions of different characters in subsequent chapters and sometimes, some chapters completely go away. It quite an undertaking. Fortunately, I save every draft I've written so I can go back to a previous one if the change doesn't work.
All I can to do is change it and see if it works, I guess.
Well, enough bellyaching, time to dive in!
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