wordwhacker

I am officially having "one of those nights". I have a headache, one that isn't quite so bad as it is persistent, nagging me every time I make the mistake of moving my eyeballs. Unfortunately I'm at work, so staring at a computer screen is necessary, hellish as the experience is. I just did the "Motrin" thing. I'm promising myself that I'll do some hardcore editing once it kicks in, as a kind of penance/celebration thing.

Last night was great, though. I did some more actual "hands on" prose editing, quite happily deleting an entire page of throw-away exposition at one point. I probably shouldn't be having so much fun using my "delete" key, but there you go. I'm noticing that my opening paragraphs for each chapter usually need a lot of work - I've rewritten several of them completely, and I get the feeling the trend is going to continue.

Pretty soon I'll be through what I consider to be the most readable portion of my novel, and will enter into the Alien Mothership sequence of events, previously known as Random Alien Land. I'm both nervous and excited about reaching this section. It needs a lot of work, and a lot of re-writing. I expect the end result to be maybe 2/3 as long as it originally was.