novels – Page 15 – Meilo Zaborowski: Author

I regularly spill coffee on myself, and the tea isn’t getting special treatment

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: Finish editor’s revision by end of April, finish final proofread/edit by end of May, 60 pages per day
Where I planned to be: 348 pages typed in, editor’s revision COMPLETE
Where I am: 348/348 pages typed in, editor’s revision COMPLETE
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Well, the weather seriously threw a wrench in my schedule. There was a huge storm that came through Wednesday evening and knocked out power at my house until almost midnight, so I wasn’t able to get anything done. Thankfully, I was already a little ahead, so I grinded through my 60 pages last night, a lot of which were notebook paper with nothing but handwritten words I had to type in, so I just barely finished before I had to shower and go to bed. (I also went through the other day and pulled out all the pages that were clean, so that knocked out quite a bit as well.) That left me with a whopping 33 more pages to deal with tonight, again with a lot of handwritten pages to type in.

But I am DONE with the editor’s revision! And in equally awesome news, I now have a total wordcount of 54,781.

People are like rocks

I’ve been an absolute trash goblin about posting these updates. So while I take a break and determine if I want to slog through a few more pages tonight or not, here we are.

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: Finish editor’s revision by end of April, finish final proofread/edit by end of May, 60 pages per day
Where I planned to be: 180 pages typed in
Where I am: 225/348 pages typed in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
To try to stay on track to publish by the end of June, I came up with an elaborate plan (read: not actually elaborate, it just involved math) to finish the editor’s revision by the end of this month. The first two weeks I dedicated to a final read-through to fix any last-minute bugs. Done and done. This week and the next I’ve allotted to the type-in, and the magic number of pages I need to touch per working day is 60. I can and have done more, but that’s the bare minimum.

…And I think I’ve decided. I’m exhausted from the day job, I’m on track here, so I’m gonna call it a night.

Don’t try to tell me how some power can corrupt a person

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: 1hr a day min, publish by June 31st
Where I planned to be: way further
Where I am: definitely not done
On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:

I’m still not done with the editor’s revision. I did finish my read through after rearranging everything and writing new scenes, and I think it’s pretty solid now. I want to do one more read through (because I also added a lot of content during the first run) just to make sure everything flows and I’ve got my times straight. Then I’ll type everything in and… Well, I’m not sure if I’ll have Audrey check it over or not. But either way, I’ll be on the home stretch.

You won’t ever break

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: 1hr a day min, finish editor’s revision by the end of Feb
Where I planned to be: Honestly, I wanted to be done with the editor’s revision by now
Where I am: I have like, 60ish pages left to read through
On Target or Behind: Ehhhhhh

How’s It Going:

I keep finding stuff I broke way worse than I intended or expected. Then when I finally get it fixed and move on, thinking “ope, that was the worst of it, gonna be smooth sailing from here” I run head first into yet another thing I broke. -lays on the floor-

I can wait for you at the bottom

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: 1hr a day min, finish editor’s revision by the end of Feb
Where I planned to be: Good question
Where I am: Even better question
On Target or Behind: ???

How’s It Going:

I am bad at updating. I did finish writing the new scenes, so now I’m reading through the whole thing to check for continuity and tweak any remaining issues. Except rearranging scenes has made for a couple of issues requiring some more writing, so everything is taking longer than I wanted.