The work continues. There were a few days I was just mentally empty before I finally got started on finishing what I set out to do. This involved adding more in areas where I thought the storytelling was a little weak, going through for consistency and plot sequence (never thought I'd use those words together), wording and meaning and just generally being the best work I could possibly produce, and then some more mechanical stuff - renumbering chapters where I added stuff, and so forth. I am just about to do a huge edit - tonight I think - of everything marked up and added. This gets a lot like work sometimes. Programming is easier, but (unfortunately) habitual by this point in my life.
I think the total is somewhere above 75,000 words by now - I'll know better after I'm through merging. At least it's up at the level it needs to be to be taken seriously as a novel. All of my friends made it through the 50,000 word point. They seem to be as shell-shocked as I am, judging by the lack of Twitter traffic or writing adventures from any of them. About the most I can manage is some erotic poetry for MicroFantasyMonday - I couldn't deal with prose in another venue at the moment. This is it.
I'm linking into this from my Facebook page - just finishing getting that up. Ah, technology...
At some point I need to produce a longer synopsis. That will be difficult - I'll probably post it here.
Found a quote (actually a number of quotes) from Hemmingway I liked - "I write about one page of good stuff for every ninety-nine pages of shit. I try to leave the shit in the trashcan"
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