I’m still polishing up my finished story, and since it’s a shortie it seems to be taking longer. It’s sad but true that the fewer words you have, the more each one counts. It’s not easier to write short and in some ways more difficult. This is also my first time through using a different style guide. So this is one of those weeks of faithful effort that doesn’t appear to be accomplishing much.
It’s very easy when writing new pages to track your progress and tell when a day has been exceptionally productive. Revision is harder to track, but I can see how far the story has come since I finished it and started in on clean up. I expected it to take me a week, and today is Thursday, so I’m right on track for being nearly done.
Still, it will be a big relief to reach the point where I can’t improve on it any further, it’s as done as it is going to get, and move on to producing new pages. I always feel sort of guilty, like I’m ditching work, if it doesn’t result in new pages, no matter how much other work I do. But it seems to work best for the story if I’m totally immersed in it and not switching off to other projects at this stage.
Time to polish some more.
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