Goal 1) Revise BM&A3
- My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
- Where I planned to be: Lesson 17, 22 scenes in
- Where I am: Lesson 17, 25 scenes in
- On Target or Behind: On Target
How’s It Going:
One of my cats, Ruby, has been really getting on my nerves while I’m trying to work. She hangs out in the kitchen and just screams at the door the whole time. I don’t know why, because she’s in the same room as me. Maybe it’s because she can’t sit in my lap when I’m at the table. Who knows.
Also, it occurs to me that only my dad actually sees what I’m doing, so here’s a pic of my setup on the kitchen table for the cut.
The 3 ring binder has my previous lesson worksheets so when I come across reference tags in the manuscript I can go back and look at my notes. Front and center is the stack of pages I’m currently working on for that scene. Just above that are my scene cards so I can stay on track; they have the scene sentence (which is just a single sentence describing what happens in the scene), page numbers, time, purpose, and list of relevant characters on them. Then on the right is the rest of the manuscript, separated into “unedited” and “cut” folders. There is a third “perfect” folder that I have yet to use in any of my revisions, but this one isn’t done yet, so there’s still a chance. The blank notebook paper is hopefully self-explanatory, but the cutting mat hanging over the stray box of tissues (don’t ask) may not be.
So when I call this the “cut”, I mean there are places where I will use an Exacto knife to literally cut parts out and glue them (glue stick is hidden in the shadow of the mat there next to my pens, sticky notes, and the box for my knives) onto another page. There are of course the way more common giant red “x”s and hand-written additions that will go on these pages.
Yes, I know we are living in 2025, and no, I will never do this process any other way.
Meilo Zaborowski: Author 