I first said that I was going to try to line edit 20 pages per day. It turns out (as I feared) that pace is just not going to happen, at least early in the draft. Since I’m trying to slow down the pacing in the first half of the novel, it’s taking longer than I expected to line edit the pages (I would note that the chapter I added in near the beginning didn’t take long, as the pacing was fine — I expect that the second half of the novel will be a similar story).
I’m okay with a slower pace — the important thing isn’t the pace, just that I’m continuing to work on it and making progress. I do have some days off coming up in a few weeks which should allow me to make some more progress, and I’m taking a four day trip with long flights on both ends which should allow me to speed up the editing process on those days.
Of course, mixed in there is the fact that I do try to take advantage of the few sunny days we’ve had this summer — constant rain for weeks on end sucks.
Also, I’m going to start heading each post with the following:
Pages Edited: 36/487 Pages Updated: 8/487
Pages Edited refers to the number of pages I’ve completed line edits on. Pages Updated refers to the number of pages where I’ve made the changes in the Word document itself. As you can see, the number of pages updated is lacking — I haven’t been home much over the last week, and my laptop is getting very close to dying (even moreso than previously reported). I’ve been out drooling at new ones on occasion, but with the whole condo-buying thing going on now, I can’t justify the expense (at least until after closing).
