I just cut out a mighty chunk of 3,000 words. I think it takes away from the story some, but sacrifices will have to be made to get my word count down. The reason I’m going through the effort is twofold. First, it’s good to go through and remove whatever seems unneeded. Maybe it’s a …
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Making Progress in Reverse
I’ve been slowly losing words. Right now I’m about 10,000 down from what I call version 1.5. In the process I’ve removed five chapters completely. I still need to lose 23,000 words from what’s left to hit my goal of 120,000 words. Getting down to 115,000 would be ideal, but getting rid of 33,000 words …
Not Dead
It’s been a long time. When I sit down in front of the computer and have a few moments I tend to want to work on the book instead of working on the blog, so the blog doesn’t get enough attention. I’m going to try to get better about doing more updates. The other factor …