It's been a long time. A bunch of us that used to do it started doing it via AIM, and others haven't been around much in FOREVER (like Pixy).
Yay casualrungal!! I just hit 45,000 on mine. Officially at the halfway mark It's all downhill from here, right?? (just nod and smile).
But I actually think it is! I found that, especially when I reached 50,000, there was really no way I WOULDN'T finish. Before... it was all up in the air haha.
Thanks everyone! I'm aiming to edit 25 pages per day. Feels so good to be at this stage! What is everyone else working on currently?
But I actually think it is! I found that, especially when I reached 50,000, there was really no way I WOULDN'T finish. Before... it was all up in the air haha.
Thanks everyone! I'm aiming to edit 25 pages per day. Feels so good to be at this stage! What is everyone else working on currently?
A word of advice: I know you really want to get into edits and stuff, because it's so exciting and happy and you just want to strike while the iron's hot (as they say ), but what you really need to do is step away from it. Congratulate yourself on a job well done, go out and get your favorite kind of celebration food items (if you can), and then sit back and relax for a few days. Give it a week, or even a month, and then go back with fresh eyes. That way you'll be a little less attached to it, and better able to edit. I know it's hard, but that normally is the best way to go about the revision process. If you have trusted friends--and by "trusted" I mean the kind that will tell you the truth, even if it's going to hurt--, ask one of them to read through it. Tell them they can mark it up and give feedback however (and however much) they feel is necessary. Then you can take the feedback and really think about the things they say before accepting or discounting it.
Yeah, that's great advice and I actually agree! I'm only doing changes to the story that I already had in mind when I was working on the ending. Like, there are some things that I knew I was going to have to change, but I just wanted to get the ending down first. After I make those initial changes (which are now essential for the story to make sense), I'm going to let it sit for awhile, maybe have some other people read it. I'm fortunate to have some VERY honest people in my life, though it doesn't always feel so fortunate when their brutal honesty brings me nearly to tears!
I'm at about 43k, so I'm like two chapters or less away from hitting 50k. After I hit that mark, I'm going to throw myself a little party haha