Kyrnie edit update
Aug. 31st, 2006 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marfiskI'm done for the week so I suppose this is as good a time as any to give an update on Kyrnie. I retyped 11,775 words this week. That means some copying and a lot of rewriting from scratch. This is a difficult place in the novel because the scenes have all been reorganized to increase tension. Sounds great on paper, but what it means in reality is going through every single scene and making sure all the references and threads still tie in.
In some, it was simple. A character mentions seeing the boat leave before the boat has left. Fine. I just cut that part out. However, in others, it's more subtle. They go visit a character in the dark. From hints, it's set up to be the same night Kyrnie is declared insane (yeah, fun stuff ;)), but it can't because two other scenes have now interceded that push the scene in question a whole day. Fine. But then what did Kyrnie do for that day? If she twiddled her thumbs, something is really wrong with the reorganization. Ah, but she can spend it battering her mind for memories about a map that she had with her in the old version and is now scraps of ash back at her village.
So, in that tangled paragraph, I hope to give you some sense of what I'm dealing with. In general, it means the edit goes slowly with great "rethink" periods when I try to make the new organization make sense. I'm a fast typist. If all I needed to do was keying, I'd have finished this weeks ago. Still, I'm coming in close and I have hopes (faint ones, but hopes) that the end of September will see Kyrnie to the end of her new stage.
Current total: 84104
Goal: 117935
remainder by word count: 33831
Actual to do: 46084 (Yes, this means I've added just under 13k)
If finished by October 1st:
1487 per day, 10407 per week (31 days)
In some, it was simple. A character mentions seeing the boat leave before the boat has left. Fine. I just cut that part out. However, in others, it's more subtle. They go visit a character in the dark. From hints, it's set up to be the same night Kyrnie is declared insane (yeah, fun stuff ;)), but it can't because two other scenes have now interceded that push the scene in question a whole day. Fine. But then what did Kyrnie do for that day? If she twiddled her thumbs, something is really wrong with the reorganization. Ah, but she can spend it battering her mind for memories about a map that she had with her in the old version and is now scraps of ash back at her village.
So, in that tangled paragraph, I hope to give you some sense of what I'm dealing with. In general, it means the edit goes slowly with great "rethink" periods when I try to make the new organization make sense. I'm a fast typist. If all I needed to do was keying, I'd have finished this weeks ago. Still, I'm coming in close and I have hopes (faint ones, but hopes) that the end of September will see Kyrnie to the end of her new stage.
Current total: 84104
Goal: 117935
remainder by word count: 33831
Actual to do: 46084 (Yes, this means I've added just under 13k)
If finished by October 1st:
1487 per day, 10407 per week (31 days)
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Date: 2006-09-01 04:37 pm (UTC)