It's Copyedit Time—Over Halfway There!

The copyedit work station, with the "box half full", ie pages yet to be looked at---and the completed chapters at front.

So here it is—the pictorial evidence that I am now officially over half way through the manuscipt. Actually I am now beyond half way as I have completed another 65 pages since the photo was taken yesterday: definitely a wOOt moment!

So here's the countdown:

- Target pages per day to finish by August 31: 100 (ie so this is not going to happen, given my best single rate to date was 71 pages in a day)

- Pages completed to date: 428

- Pages until completion (including glossary): 300

So although I am not going to meet the original 'best case' target of having a completed ms back in New York by Wednesday 31, I am pretty confident I will have the whole shebang en route by the close-of-play Friday 2nd at the latest—a clear week ahead of my 'worst case' target.  And I am pretty happy with that!

Just gotta keep up that focused work for another 5 days …

Wanna know the really good part though—so far, that Gathering story is just rocking along!