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Dec. 27th, 2006 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerSo I decided to take Christmas and Boxing day off from the editing - largely because I left my partially edited version of Chapter 12 on a save file here at work. D'oh! Christmas was too busy anyway, and I was totally mentally screwed yesterday. I had two days where I did an hour's work, and other than that I haven't missed a day yet, so I'm doing all right. Back on the wagon today.
I am feeling *really* good about getting this thing done. As I think about the story as a whole I'm starting to get ideas about expanding it, refining it, making the characters better. I don't expect high art, but I want to tell a good story, and I want to tell it well. If nothing else this thing is going to be a great experience in thinking a book through from beginning to end.
[Edit:] Did around half an hour of editing tonight, though it took me an hour and a half between calls and things at work. Chapter 12 is finished and has been posted. There are four or five chapters left, though once they get re-arranged and cut it's hard to say how many there's going to be.
Something that I'm realizing as I write is that I want to find a balance between "realism" - a kid's version of gritty realism - and a "tall tale", something a little magical and larger than life. That's where I want this story to live.
I am feeling *really* good about getting this thing done. As I think about the story as a whole I'm starting to get ideas about expanding it, refining it, making the characters better. I don't expect high art, but I want to tell a good story, and I want to tell it well. If nothing else this thing is going to be a great experience in thinking a book through from beginning to end.
[Edit:] Did around half an hour of editing tonight, though it took me an hour and a half between calls and things at work. Chapter 12 is finished and has been posted. There are four or five chapters left, though once they get re-arranged and cut it's hard to say how many there's going to be.
Something that I'm realizing as I write is that I want to find a balance between "realism" - a kid's version of gritty realism - and a "tall tale", something a little magical and larger than life. That's where I want this story to live.
