Never Ending Story

[naomi_jay]

In other news, I set aside Wild to get back into revising Ill-Met. I'm hoping to have all the changes done by the end of the month, an ambitious goal given I'm only on chapter nine at the moment. But I'm confident. I have a four-day weekend this week and I intend to type until my fingers fall off! 

I'm realising that the revision process is essentially unending. I thought I was done with my new first chapters, but found myself adding more to it as I revised later chapters and realised I'd either contradicted myself (Kas has a watch in chapter two but somehow loses it by chapter seven) or repeated myself (how many times must Scarlett contemplate her foster-father's death? Millions of times, dammit!)

I suppose really you could revise for ever and never be completed satisfied with what you're writing. At the moment I feel like I'm just adding to the word count rather than improving the story, but I was pretty hung over yesterday so my judgement was probably flawed....

Comments

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

good luck with the revisions!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^-^ How are the summer holidays going? Hope you're getting plenty of rest!

Thanks for the well-wishes but.............

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

life's been crazy. I have final edits to do, a work function to attend tonight and jury duty tomorrow. So yeah, only one day of holiday so far. But I'm hopeful it'll get better:)

Re: Thanks for the well-wishes but.............

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Eek, how many days of jury duty? My mum did that a few years ago and got tied up with it for a fortnight.

They didn't pick me today so.......

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

I was only in for one day:)