April 3: Forty-nine thousand green bottles...

I'm reaching the hard stuff. Or at least, the stuff that makes me think "who wrote this crap?!" even though I have no idea how to rewrite.

I'm currently working on the parts which I wrote while trialling actual in-order writing. As a result, there's a lot of faffing around, and not much actual stuff with a point. I've proved to my satisfaction now that I can only write stuff that drives forward if I've already written the place it's driving to.

But I can't think of a way to edit in a structured manner without forcing myself to work through the document in order. If I fall back on editing wherever fancy strikes me, will I actually get any closer to the completion of said editing?

HSF is the biggest thing I've ever written, and this rough draft is more than double the size that one was. I was forced to work through editing HSF in order, because I was sending chapters through to Gus as I finished them. I didn't work in order even then then - I worked in the order inspiration came, but kept the bar moving for finished chapters at the same time. Maybe that would be a better approach.

But regarding my current problem, you know what? These passages are not only pointless, they're just plain shit. And you know what I do with shit?

*deletes*


Random stats for April 3rd:
Long-awaited realisations made about tricky plot points: 1
Words made up for worldbuilding purposes: 2
Chapters complete: 2
Earliest word retouched today: 279
Words added: 286
Words removed: 1,282
Words pronounced edited: 2,157 (minus 165 highlighted)
Final word count: 49,692
Days to completion, at this rate: 72