Measuring Writing Status and Making Revision Easy On the Eyes

Well, we’re already at the first day of August and so that just says the summer is racing by! And I feel like I’ve gotten so little done with my fiction writing.

I’m several pages behind in revising my novella after I had scheduled deadlines for the completion of so many pages. But I’ve decided that I’m going to take a fellow author/blogger’s advice (I apologise, I don’t remember who it was that gave it) and write at least a page a day for those days of the week that I’ve blocked out to concentrate on my novella and just try to work out the deadline for the completion of the book as I come closer to completing it. I may even set the daily goal according to word count and so write so many words a day. That’s probably a more efficient measurement than a page count because the number of words varies from page to page.

I’m also behind on my alternate universe short story. However, I had given it a break back in the spring and only resumed revising it a few weeks ago so I can’t really say I’m stalling on that as far as summer goes. I had said a few posts back that the story’s structure was a disaster and I had to rearrange it into a chronological narrative even though the narrator’s character called for otherwise. So I put it in its chronological order and printed out a fresh hard copy for easier reading during this past week. Even though I had a bit of a hell of a time with my printer.

For some reason my printer wasn’t printing the full lines of text and so they were either coming out faded or half missing. So I had to troubleshoot it one night and because of that I didn’t get done any revisions on the story. However, I fixed the problem and it prints at least 90 percent better than it did before and so I can at least read the print more easily. Before I printed it, I made sure I took out all the strikethrough lines of those passages that I was thinking about omitting. I just made sure I saved it as another file in case I decide to use those passages after all. So I’m still revising the story but it’s a lot easier than before because it’s in chronological order now and I’m working off of a clean copy of the draft. Maybe if things go by well enough I’ll have it done by late September.

Well, I’m ending this post short so I can catch up on my fiction. But I’ll be back here Wednesday for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group! How is your reading and/or writing coming along during this summer season?

Until next time . . .

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