Seven down, nineteen to go
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anthimeriaChapters of Trial to edit, that is.
Applying the hard copy edits is actually going slower than the hard copy edit itself, which I didn't think was possible. Partly it's that I have to actually write something for those spots where I jotted down "insert description of a field and Eva's emotions here", and partly it's because I keep getting caught in research spirals.
A research spiral looks like this: I'll run across a sentence that needs more detail and then spend an hour trying to figure out whether chalkboards existed in medieval Italy (as far as I can tell, no), and if not, what if anything was used intead (. . . nothing, as far as I can tell? Apparently teachers just lectured and their students copied it on tablets. None of the art from the era has the teacher referring to anything the whole class can see. It's annoying because the technology was there--chalk and a black wall!--but nobody put it together). Then I have to make decisions about the results of my research (like, do I use chalkboards anyway? No? Then what?), and then I have to get it into my worldbuilding document (often with comments about why I arrived at that conclusion, because if I don't remember I'll just end up in another research spiral trying to figure it out).
More than one of these in a session makes getting through a chapter and a half an accomplishment.
Current wordcount on the full document is 33,767, which is actually less than I anticipated since I'm a third of the way through the manuscript. What I'm beginning to suspect this means is that my next few drafts will also add words.
In bill-paying-job news, camp went really well! I had fabulous students and we had a grand old time, plus their parents were happy, which is always important.
Now that that particular extra work is out of the way, I'm hoping to wrap the draft II edit for Trial in the next two weeks so I can buckle down to worldbuilding and outlining my next project.
Applying the hard copy edits is actually going slower than the hard copy edit itself, which I didn't think was possible. Partly it's that I have to actually write something for those spots where I jotted down "insert description of a field and Eva's emotions here", and partly it's because I keep getting caught in research spirals.
A research spiral looks like this: I'll run across a sentence that needs more detail and then spend an hour trying to figure out whether chalkboards existed in medieval Italy (as far as I can tell, no), and if not, what if anything was used intead (. . . nothing, as far as I can tell? Apparently teachers just lectured and their students copied it on tablets. None of the art from the era has the teacher referring to anything the whole class can see. It's annoying because the technology was there--chalk and a black wall!--but nobody put it together). Then I have to make decisions about the results of my research (like, do I use chalkboards anyway? No? Then what?), and then I have to get it into my worldbuilding document (often with comments about why I arrived at that conclusion, because if I don't remember I'll just end up in another research spiral trying to figure it out).
More than one of these in a session makes getting through a chapter and a half an accomplishment.
Current wordcount on the full document is 33,767, which is actually less than I anticipated since I'm a third of the way through the manuscript. What I'm beginning to suspect this means is that my next few drafts will also add words.
In bill-paying-job news, camp went really well! I had fabulous students and we had a grand old time, plus their parents were happy, which is always important.
Now that that particular extra work is out of the way, I'm hoping to wrap the draft II edit for Trial in the next two weeks so I can buckle down to worldbuilding and outlining my next project.