Paksworld

Been at this all morning and of course found something that needed massive amounts of work.   Had to print out another 40-something pages, to check for repeated points in multiple conversations…the sort of thing that real people do, but that (so I’ve been told for year) annoys readers no end.   “He said that already!”   (As if we didn’t all say the same things over and over…but fiction isn’t reality, and this is one of the ways.)

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Progress indeed, despite another attack of headache in the afternoon–not only some smoothing, but about 4000 words of the necessary cuts (admittedly, part of  that was finding a fossil duplicate chapter hiding out two chapters away from where it belonged…how did it sneak over there??)    Read the rest of this entry »

All the detached chapters and sections are back in the main file, and everything’s renumbered.   (This doesn’t mean I’ve renumbered everything correctly, judging by past experience!)   I’m now at least 9000 words over my planned  length, so the afternoon (of a beautiful day, alas) will be spent in both patching and cutting.   Read the rest of this entry »