revision – Page 14 – Meilo Zaborowski: Author

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.

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.

Bleh

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: 1hr a day min, finish editor’s revision by the end of March
Where I planned to be: New scenes finished
Where I am: 1.5 scenes left to write
On Target or Behind: Jury’s out

How’s It Going:

I’m really bad at updating apparently. I just started on Concerta Tuesday though, so hopefully I’ll be less dead on the weekends.

Still working on the new scenes. They’re a lot more difficult than I expected.

Go fast eat wax

There I go talking about accountability and I up and forget to post updates anyway. -shrug-

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: 3hrs spent, maybe just shy of halfway through the editor’s revision?
Where I am: so many time, in the middle of writing the new scenes I’m adding
On Target or Behind: On Target…?

How’s It Going:
So last week I finally finished organizing my scenes into a more balanced order and sketching out the new scenes I’m adding. Now I’ve got all the actual manuscript pages moved around and I’m working on writing out the new scenes. After that, I’ll have to do at least one more read-through to make sure I don’t have any weird continuity issues from shuffling scenes around. I almost accidentally created one when I started writing one of the new scenes, but I caught it about the same time the ink dried.

I think I’ve also already nailed down my copy, or description. I’m still waiting to see if I get any more comments or suggestions on the post I made about it on Holly’s forum, but it feels solid.

I also may or may not be shooting myself in the foot, but I’m looking into some neat new features, and I’ve got some plans. Why yes, I am being intentionally vague.