Done today: Still on first five chapters Revision remaining: 149 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5 I feel as though I’m not getting anywhere with my revising when I look at my stats, but revising can sometimes be slower than writing. This is time when you’re considering so much more. With the first…
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Done today: Still on first five chapters Revision remaining: 149 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5 I wasn’t sure if I was going to write about the new Where the Wild Things Are movie, which my husband and I saw last weekend, because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say. Mostly, my…
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Done today: More on chapter 4 Revision remaining: 149 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5 So, today I started the revisions I had thought of a couple days ago, and then came up with an even better solution to the problem! That’ll be tomorrow morning’s revision exercise, but I think it’ll be a…
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Done today: Chapter 4 Revision remaining: 149 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5 Got some more revision done this weekend and figured out some things that had been bothering me, which was great. I’m going to change one chapter into two chapters with more stuff added in, so I might just do that…
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Done today: More of Chapter 2 Revision remaining: 162 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.6 I had a mini break-through this morning when I was working on my revision. Yesterday, I had started editing chapter two, but got stuck on one paragraph that I liked but knew it didn’t fit where it was. I…
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Done today: First half of Chapter 2 (two pages) Revision remaining: 163 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5 Today I’m blogging as part of Blog Action Day, along with more than 5,000 bloggers around the world. How fun! The topic is climate change. Now, I’m no scientist, and there are plenty of studies…
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Done today: Chapter 1 (four pages) Revision remaining: 165 pages Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.5 Finally got down to some good revision this morning. Phew! Does it feel good to be working with the book again. We’ve read that children’s books have been doing better than some other segments in this recession.…
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Done today: preparing Revision remaining: 169 pages (entire book) Daily pages needed to be finished by end of November: 3.4 My revision is still getting off to a slow start, but I finished the preparation Holly Lisle suggests in her One-Pass Manuscript Revision, so tomorrow I should begin going through pages. I’ll let you know how it comes along.…
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Done today: nothing so far Revision remaining: 46,313 words (entire book) Daily words needed to be finished by end of November: 908 I’ve been feeling very unmotivated lately since our dog passed away, and I’m trying to snap out of it. But I’ve pretty much done nothing on my revision since I last posted on Day By Day…
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Done today: research Revision remaining: 46,313 words (entire book) Daily words needed to be finished by end of November: 842 I started my revision today, but only got as far as researching. Research is a very necessary part of the writing process — guru Robert McKee says research is the key to overcoming writers block —…
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