Happiness

[ksmith]

...is when you take about 90 manuscript pages of indefinable mess in the middle, extract the pieces you can use, and realize you've likely cut about 50 pages. Not that that won't be added toward the end, where there exist Big Gaps. But large swaths have been cut out of the Vast Questionable. Honestly, you look at that stuff and wonder how in hell you could have ever thought it was any good.

Bad news--the 40 pages I keep will require extensive revision. Almost ground floor.

Good news--linking together the chapters and counting pages reveals the happy fact that I am at the arithmetic halfway point, which means I have more wriggle room than I thought.

I'm going to be scarce here and elsewhere for a while. Have to be. No choice. Because I can't take as long to rewrite the second half of this damned millstone as I did to rewrite the first.

Of course, if I could channel jaylake for a week, I'd be in clover...

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Understood. Going through my own intestinal surgery with a spoon myself, deadline end of next month.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Oh--are you using the handle? Did you sharpen it first, or are you going to be brave and use the dull edge?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Actually it seems to have turned into a squeegee.

Hmmm. My revisions are like that.

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Good luck. See you on the other side!


sue

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yo-Ho-Heave-Ho. Or however that goes...

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

You can have all my writing vibe for next week, as I'll be visiting my newborn niece.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Oh--free writing vibe!

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

It goes well with espresso.