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Some Notes on Editing the Second Draft

21:46 10 Dec 2007

I finished the second draft nine days behind schedule, which in the overall scheme of things isn’t that bad a slip. It turned out to be extremely difficult to maintain a steady approach to the editing, unlike either the micronovel version or the first 35 episodes of AFBH, two projects of similar duration that I completed successfully (and on time) last year.
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SF Novel Second Draft Done

23:48 09 Dec 2007. Updated: 06:18 10 Dec 2007

Yes, done
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SF Novel Second Draft Update C14 Stalled Once More

23:47 08 Dec 2007

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C14 Still Stalled

23:55 07 Dec 2007. Updated: 01:40 08 Dec 2007

I’ll do my best to finish over the next two days.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C14 Stalled

23:55 06 Dec 2007

No progress. I’m stalled again. It’s unbelievabley frustrating to be stalled so close to the end. Hopefully I’ll get over it soon. One long burst of activity would finish the damn thing.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C14 In Progress

23:53 05 Dec 2007. Updated: 00:52 07 Dec 2007

Little progress tonight, despite the word count. The chasm between “writing” and “not writing” as states feels like it’s widening, making it harder to go from one ot the other. It was like that at the start, and when I got stalled in the middle. I have to assume that will is what it takes to flip the switch, but an inadequate explanation of the concept of will has always undermined the usefulness of that assumption.
Word count: 72034

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C13

23:51 04 Dec 2007. Updated: 02:00 05 Dec 2007

Paraphrased from an episode of The Wire I watched earlier (when I should have been editing): “Make your number, or die in this room.” For tonight, at least, I made my number.
Word count: 69259

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C13 Not Yet Done

23:58 03 Dec 2007

Thirteen doesn’t appear to be lucky today. Not that much to do, but it’s currently beyond me.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C12

03:12 03 Dec 2007

I think I can see the finish line.
Word count: 63926

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Second Draft Not Quite There

23:58 02 Dec 2007. Updated: 22:37 23 Jun 2013

Obviously, I didn’t finish the second draft in November. I didn’t manage it by the end of this weekend, either. I’m close. Very close, probably about six thousand words of writing away, which isn’t too bad given the target of eighty thousand.

I’m disappointed that I didn’t finish it today (or Friday, but an extra weekend wasn’t too bad). I’ll try to finish it tomorrow, but it looks unlikely, unless I get some serious inspiration for what those six thousand words should be… the end of the first draft is a little more sparse than I had thought. I need about an extra thousand words for Chapter Thirteen, and an extra two-and-a-half thousand each for Fourteen and Fifteen. Certainly doable, but not tonight.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C11

18:29 02 Dec 2007

Four to go.
Word count: 58594

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C10

19:59 01 Dec 2007

Done. Five to go.
Word count: 53262

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C10 Delayed Again

23:57 30 Nov 2007. Updated: 04:05 01 Dec 2007

Another long day. So I fail to hit my target of the end of the month, but I’m still going to aim for the end of the weekend. Finishing the second draft only two days behind schedule would still make me rather happy.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C10 Delayed

23:59 29 Nov 2007. Updated: 01:30 30 Nov 2007

Long, long day at work today. So I didn’t have the chance to edit. I did look over the chapters, and it looks tough to get six done tomorrow… Chapter 10 itself doesn’t look too bad, I think it’ll be easy to cut down. Chapter 11 will probably be harder. Chapter 12 might well be the toughest left, because the current material for it is extremely sparse. I think 13 and 14 will be easier, and then 15, because it’s the end, will probably be hard (although I do not plan any major changes to the ending at this point).

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C9

23:58 28 Nov 2007. Updated: 02:40 29 Nov 2007

That was difficult. And now I have six chapters to do in two days. That looks both very tough and quite achievable.
Word count: 47930

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C9 Halfway There

23:58 27 Nov 2007

The chapters from my first draft are extremely uneven in terms of length (and in other ways, too). Going through them and trying to make them more uniform requires switching between doing a lot of cutting and doing a lot of new writing, more of the latter than I had expected. So I’m still far away, but I haven’t given up hope of getting there before Saturday.
Word count: 45630

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C8

23:56 26 Nov 2007. Updated: 01:11 27 Nov 2007

That took a lot longer than I’d hoped. Finally past the halfway point. With four days left in the month, I have seven chapters to go. I might need some of this weekend to do it.
Word count: 42598

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C8 Still Unfinished

23:29 25 Nov 2007

I cut over 10,000 words today, but the last 3,000 or so in this chapter are proving difficult. Progress this weekend was rather slow.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C8 Some Progress

23:55 24 Nov 2007

Working my way through it. I don’t have a solid word count for the finished part yet. Hopefully I can get it and a few more chapters done tomorrow…

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C8 Delayed

23:59 23 Nov 2007

Too tired. Since there are only seven days left in the month, I need to do two chapters tomorrow and one per day thereafter. Tough but possible. Starting the editing process earlier in the day would probably help a great deal.

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C7S1 and C7S2

23:58 22 Nov 2007. Updated: 02:09 23 Nov 2007

Moving along…
Word count: 37266

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C7S1 in Progress

23:57 21 Nov 2007

But the need for sleep won out.
Word count: 32033

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SF Novel Second Draft Update C6S1 and C6S2

23:58 20 Nov 2007

I edited all of Chapter Six today, which catches me up one day. If I keep up that pace, I’ll manage to get the remaining nine chapters done this month.
Word count: 32033

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