Monday, January 7, 2008

First draft and editing

I completed my first draft yesterday, and have begun the editing process. I wasn't too surprised to find that, halfway into the edit, I found a need to change some things.

Yesterday I had 58,000 words, which I expected I would edit to around 40,000.

Today I deleted the last five chapters, and edited quite a bit of extraneous crap and unnecessary description and explanation.

Sadly, I killed five characters in the editing process. Sorry about that, Jessie, Katy, Brendan, Cory, and Loretta.

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