wordwhacker

Success! Narrowly avoided the procrastination blues today. I'm at the stage where I'm mostly having to cut, rather than re-write, so the editing is going fairly swiftly. I got Chapter 5 down from 3,100 words to 1,600 words. That seems to be about par for the course for this story, and leaves me in a decent range for the market I'm aiming for, I think. Need to look into that.

Also got Chapter 6 ready to be edited and made my notes as to where I want to go with it. This is where the editing is going to get sticky - until now, a solid hour was all I needed for each chapter. I think that's going to double and triple as I go. That's fine - I'm just going to take it an hour at a time, for now.

Besides, I'm not editing War and Peace, here. I'm editing a SF Adventure novel for kids, and this is only the second draft. What I finish with won't be publishable, but it WILL be a heck of a lot closer.