Tag: novels

Let hope burn in your eyes

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 21, complete
  • Where I am: Lesson 21, complete
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Ayo, it’s doooooooone!

Well, the revision, at least. Just gotta do some quick housekeeping bits before I send it off to Audrey.

Today I’m not, not afraid to die

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 21, 240 pages in
  • Where I am: Lesson 21, 249 pages in
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Ugh, so many handwritten pages to type in the last two weeks. But I think I’m done with the bulk of them now.

I’m on track to finish the type-in next week! And I’ve already reached out to my editor, Audrey, and she says I can send it to her as soon as I’m ready. She does have a regular job now, so she said she won’t be able to get it back to me quite as quickly as before, but that will give me time to finalize the cover and description. But we are certainly barreling toward the finish line here, folks. Not gonna count my chickens just yet, but I might be able to release this before the end of the year.

Nice try, but you can’t avoid this forever

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 21, 180 pages in
  • Where I am: Lesson 21, 189 pages in
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
You know, it’s really hard to type when there’s a cat lying in your lap in front of your keyboard. Too bad there’s no way to just scan my handwritten pages into text. That would be neat.

I know that this will hurt if you let go of me first

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 21, 120 pages in
  • Where I am: Lesson 21, 132 pages in
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Andrew says I should be more descriptive in my posts, but honestly, this is the most boring part of the whole revision. Not for me; I love seeing everything come together and fall in place. But really, all I’m doing is taking each page of printed manuscript, in order, copy-pasting what I can from the draft document, and typing in any changes or additions I’ve made on paper. There is no thought involved in this process (or at least, very minimal thought; any on-the-fly changes at this point are only wording/grammar/punctuation tweaks).

Maybe that’s part of why I like it. Other than, you know, almost being done.