Moving the chains II

Over the course of about four hours late last night and early this morning, I did an edit on my manuscript. Perhaps this won’t be of interest to anyone but me, but I found it fascinating to watch the word count change as I tweaked away, adding a few words here, excising a few there. In terms of word count, the changes were mostly static, though I think the story improved.

Finally, toward the end of the work, I added a bit of color and background to a scene and pushed the total up by nearly 200 wo