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So I completed a first draft midweek, and I've been tweaking since then. Looks like I'm currently at something approximating 92,800 words -- it's hard to tell when I'm split across four Google Docs and have two competing chapter-break models in place.
There's a part of me that is impatient to start posting, but I've made huge improvements to some passages already, and my reader is pointing out several things that needed bolstering, too. (And, y'know, needs time to have a life around reading this behemoth for me.) And I'm still not quite happy with the flow of The Biggest Scene. (It's much, much better now that I've spaced it out, and I think it helps that I purposely started dropping certain punctuation for that section. I'm trying to decide if I want to mess with justification, too, for the stickiest bit; it would be gimmicky as all get-out, but it might actually work. I don't know.) ( Snippet )
There's a part of me that is impatient to start posting, but I've made huge improvements to some passages already, and my reader is pointing out several things that needed bolstering, too. (And, y'know, needs time to have a life around reading this behemoth for me.) And I'm still not quite happy with the flow of The Biggest Scene. (It's much, much better now that I've spaced it out, and I think it helps that I purposely started dropping certain punctuation for that section. I'm trying to decide if I want to mess with justification, too, for the stickiest bit; it would be gimmicky as all get-out, but it might actually work. I don't know.) ( Snippet )