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No writing today as I had a day wandering around London with a friend... and couldn't quite be bothered to organise myself to bring my writing notebook on the train with me.
Still, I'm looking forward to this week's writing, because I'm moving onto edit chapters 18 through 22 - i.e. the climax, denouement (or are those two the same thing?!?) and resolution of The Novel! |
| Continued small edits to Chapter 17 on the train this morning, though it was difficult because there were a couple of people talking VERY loudly about all their issues with the management at their company. That's what I get for catching the 8.25 train... everyone who catches a train before 8am generallu knows to maintain the commuter's golden silence! |
Ugh, I thought I could skip over Chapter 17 and it wouldn't need much editing... I was wrong 
On the other hand, I do like this bit of description that's hiding in there (in amongst all the logical inconsistencies and half-written pieces of dialogue...):
The wooden catwalk they were perched on looked out over the whole dizzying array of platforms, walkways, ladders, staircases, balconies, atriums, ministries and municipal buildings, public squares, busking spots, lovers' enclaves, and guild division meeting halls which rose up together out of the dark ocean far below them to form the central bureaucracy and heart of the Five Islands. Although it was well after working hours, there were still lights glinting from dozens of office windows, and other lamps twinkling on the walkways and staircases that formed the connective tissue across it all.
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I wrote a whole update and lost it 
Suffice to say edits to Chapter 16 continue... |
| Got halfway through edits to Chapter 16 this morning - it's definitely one of the quicker/more developed chapters - onwards! |
Started the writing week off with an hour (re-)writing up Chapter 15! Most of my writing time will be on the train this week - I'll be in the office three or maybe even four days, because I have a new person starting in the team who I'm inducting. Always good to have new blood... 
I find it difficult setting wordcount/progress goals, because I never know how long it's going to take me to write/revise a particular section or chapter - some just take longer than others, right? BUT having said that I am tentatively looking towards having a full semi-decent first draft of The Novel done by the end of the year, in a good enough state to start sharing around  |
| Had a day off and managed three hours' writing, despite some severe post-lunch slump around 2pm. I'm pleased I pushed through it, though, as I'll know next time that I start feeling dozy that I CAN do it! |
Back to writing on the train into work today Revising chapter 13 again, and spent some time trying and failing to think of a good synonym for "lump", as in:
She slowly pulled herself up onto her knees and crawled back over to the lump of white fabric.
Spoilers/context: it's a body, so something like "pile" doesn't really work.
HMMMM. |
Finished this set of revisions for Chapter 13, checked through Chapter 14, and then jumped back to rewrite Chapter 13.... why yes, my editing system makes perfect sense to me, why do you ask  |
| Managed another small bit of writing today, but my head/heart wasn't in it so I watched movies and ironed for the rest of the day. Small steps to get back into my daily habit of an hour of writing a day! |
| I did a small bit of writing (well, editing Chapter 13, really) for the first time in about 4 weeks, because I've been feeling rundown with lots of family and house-building stuff going on. I only managed half an hour and then had to stop as I had a bit of a headache - but still, every little helps! |
| Bleh, still feeling rotten today with the headcold - I tried to do some work just now and my brain just felt like mush when I tried to read some emails - and it's the same with writing. At least I have been able to get some cleaning done as that doesn't require any brainpower! |
No writing today, as I've come down with one of those headcolds that makes my head feel like it's full of cotton wool.
...but in exciting life news, we've just had an offer accepted on a house we're hoping to purchase  So writing time might be cut into over the next few days/weeks/months by calling mortgage brokers and conveyancers and whatnot... But I don't mind that so much |
Found a load of old notes on The Novel hidden away in my OneNote - most were out of date because my thinking/plotting has developed significantly since then - the few that remained went in my and put them into my "master" (paper) notebook today.
How do you keep track of your writing notes? Are you a OneNote-r, a scriven-er, a pieces-of-paper-all-over-the-place-er...? |
Read through chapters 13 - 22 this weekend (i.e. the latter half of the novel), trying to figure out what to do next. It still needs a lot of revising, but at least it all makes logical sense and the characters have understandable motivations for why they're doing what they're doing. I have to get all of that down before I start doing all the fun, shiny bits like describing locations and secondary characters in detail  |
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