Got rid of about 3000 words tonight. Down to 102,598.  Still shaking my head at the length. I don’t think we have any *enormous* loss.  Which of course is the point of cutting. No, I haven’t gotten all my mss back, and no, no one told me to cut these particular scenes, but my [ctrl]+x Continue reading →

I have just reached (in my last writing session) the portion of my novel that I have not “touched” since NaNo ’06. The story has changed significantly since then. New characters have been born and others have sunk into the background. The timeline has been significantly compressed (from years into months) A war has been Continue reading →

But it’s working…. I finally opened a spreadsheet and did a Y x X of characters and their ages at major events. This precipitated the necessity of starting a second sheet verifying the dates of said major events, and deciding how the calendar is ordered in this region/age. April through March, in case you wanted Continue reading →