wordwhacker

So, I am freed of school-related obligations. My first writing objective of the month has been met. Now it's time to move on to goal numero dos, being:

Get Mah Novel Edited, Yo!

I cracked open the old Blue Goo manuscript and picked up not-quite halfway through Chapter 9. I think I said something about that, as I was about to embark on it this past summer. Something about it "not needing much rewriting".

Yeah. So I needed to rewrite almost the ENTIRE chapter. I mean, like 98% of it or more. Brutal. The writing is much stronger now, though. Word-count wasn't quite halved - it's still 2,200 words long and needs trimming. I'm not worrying about that now. That's for D3, baby.

I only gave myself an obligation of working for half an hour, but once I got into it I wanted to get it finished so I plugged away for a full hour. See, if I can trick myself into DOING stuff, I might actually, y'know... DO stuff.

There are five or six chapters left. An hour seems to be just about what it takes to whip a chapter into shape, give or take. If I get half an hour in every day from now until school starts (assuming a couple of lost days over Christmas) I will be swimmin'.

I WILL do this. I need to prove that I have the discipline.