Short post, I promise.

I’m on track with my editing schedule.  Since my last check in on Sunday, I edited 12 more chapters and will pick up with chapter 27 after I hit post.

No other news to report as editing The PURE is my only remaining goal between now and the end of this round.

My cumulative statistics are on my ROW80-3 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports.  Give them some encouragement too.

Oops, I’m late.  The Linky post for the September 3, 2011 report never came through my Google reader, only an 8/31 post that yielded a 404 error.

Turns out the ROW80 Linky was there on the blog all along.  :::face/palm:::  I understand now what happened and it’s my own fault for relying 100% on Google reader, knowing how it is.

So, I only have one goal left and it has a publisher imposed deadline of 9/19.  I panicked when I double-checked the schedule and saw this date.  For some reason, I though the MS was due in October.  I did what I had to do and that was sit down and make a schedule.  I computed how many chapters I needed to do by each Saturday between now and 9/19 and how that spaced out in terms of doable quantities on work days vs. weekends.  (Yes, I am a numbers and goals and metrics gal; it’s what I do for a living.)  The pace is brisk and intense, but I’ll make it.  My Saturday milestone was 14 cumulative chapters and, by golly, I hit it.  After adding another 5 yesterday, I’m almost at the halfway mark and 100% on schedule.  🙂

I’m still using Autocrit (great online program I highly recommend for self-editing).  Be warned though.  All the red text you might see when you run a chapter through Autocrit dialysis can be disheartening.  My first passes normally look like this:

The above example is actually not as bad as many of my other chapters, with a “mere” 46 removals required.

Autocrit can also encourage though.  I got to the love scene, chapter 19, and first pass through Autocrit, as expected, was bloody, worse than the example above.  Rather than examine each exception as I normally do, I decided to rewrite the whole chapter.  I made it much better.  I ran it through Autocrit which returned only…drumroll….3 or 4 tiny droplets of blood and those were mostly -ly adverbs I ended up deleting.  I’d never had so little red on a chapter before.  This can only mean I’ve become a better writer since I first wrote the novel in 2009 OR I’m just really good at love scenes.  😉  Or maybe it’s a combination of the two.  Don’t know, don’t care, I’ll take my encouragement in whatever package it presents itself in.

Sorry to drone on.  I originally thought this would be my shortest report evah whereas it’s one of the longest.

My cumulative statistics are on my ROW80-3 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports.  Give them some encouragement too.