Amygdalia's Blog

NaNo manuscript etc

I'm ready.  I want to start editing.  I have ideas flowing from practically every body part, and I can't stop them.  I've read through it twice and decided it's not as crappy as I thought it was when I was writing.  I decided this because I cried at the ending both times.  AND I KNEW WHAT WAS COMING!!

I also realized I need to eliminate about 500 extraneous commas from the manuscript.  Not a problem.  I guess I was over-exuberant when I was writing.  The ideas were coming, the punctuation was irrelevant at that point.

And I decided I needed maps of the castle.  But before I could do that I needed to read it again to find out where I'd "put" everything.  Consequently I discovered that I'd put things all over the place.    So I have to make sure Alex's rooms are in the correct area of the castle to make everything else show up in its proper place, etc etc. 

I know the story will change quite a bit and I'm excited to get started making those changes.  But I can't.  I promised to participate in Storm's writing meetings to get feedback on what I've written so far. 

So I keep picking up the hard copy and sort of snuggling with it.  But today I want to work on those maps. 

Somewhere in there I also need to start planning for our holiday party, which is . . . *gulp* . . . ONE WEEK from today!