Severe editing done!
Last week I whined about having to cut my YA novel down from its obese 110K words down to (actually) 75K.
I flew on business several times last week, and did a lot of marking up of printed manuscript en route. Then, staring early this Saturday, I commenced implementing the edits. It was surprisingly easy to cut maybe 25K words out, making me realize I had been a bit self-indulgent in my text. The other 10K was a bit harder, but still not the torture I anticipated.
And I did have it wrong. Marth...
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Erica
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Nov 04, 2013 11:03AM
Alex: I feel your pain. Really, really. In my case I need to lipo a flabby beginning and somehow move what I feel is crucial backstory, umm, somewhere. Now I'm 10k UNDER what my word count should be. Pass the wine.
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