April, you are rocking the dedication! 2K and a chapter is a lot. Keep up the good work.
Pterofan--Glad to see you back!!!
Hope the words start up for you--I suspect you've accomplished a lot during the no-internet-access days. All that writing probably has a secret pay-off of one sort or another.
Taylor, congrats on the 2 pages! I rounded up for you. Why not?
Keithy, good luck with the chopping, and the inserting of new ideas. I'm pretty good at chopping--part of the reason I wanted a hefty word count on the first draft. I suspect most of the chapter I worked on today will get chopped when all is said and done. Anyway, yes, let us all keep swimming and not lose our masks in the process.
Layla. All the things. All the awesomeness. All the time.
CindyT -- Such research could include baking. Just a random thought.
Congrats on the 2500+ words! That is amazing.
K. Robert-- your packet is coming along! Huzzah. Good luck with the final touches.
I worked through my Chapter three today and was horrified how bad it was, in part because I know I read it in January and thought it was passable at the time. No, it isn't, not at all. The plot movement was there (which is probably what I was looking for, in January) but gah I was not prepared for how bad it was, even after telling myself the whole manuscript is a steaming pile. (But
my steaming pile, and a complete one, so I love it anyway.)
Anyway, after chopping out whole sections of idiocy and meaningless characters-shuffling-about, and inserting motivation and internal deliberation from the VPCharacter, it's 150 words longer overall. Manuscript is 105.5K, and at the rate I'm adding/deleting I feel like the final final word count will be where I'd like, which is slightly more than the first novel.
Off for a short little walk now.
TL;DR: 150 words.