The Edit, Part Three: Spring Check-In
The Edit, Part Three: Spring Check-In
The Bottom of the World
I don't have much to report, but editing the novel goes pretty well!
I'm not quite as far as I'd like to be. I'm done 4 out of 15 chapters, with 23k words down. For reference, the original length of this section was ~15k words. I expect the rest of it to similarly bulk up -- the first draft was just really skeletal!
I find editing much harder than writing a first draft. It's kind of easy to just write words when you have an outline, because you can leave continuity and rhythm and annoying bits and apostrophes and quality to later. Unfortunately, now it's later. But it's still fun and I still think it's en route to being rad.
The first draft was an increasingly laggy google doc, this draft is in Scrivener. I quite like it for organising things, and I’m slowly figuring out how to make the most use out of it.
I hope your own projects for the year are going well!
