April 6: The Great Gold Rush

Haha! Three cheers for perseverance!

In one day, I've shot from 5% complete to 12% complete. Can we say w00t?!

Of course, the numbers are a little misleading today, because I've finally managed to join up with some big chunks of story which were actually pretty good already. When it's only a tweak here or there, it makes things go a whole lot faster than when it's a situation where I can't even decide what should actually happen.

Not that I haven't been doing plenty to earn my editing credits this weekend: the beginning's looking much the better for being about two thirds the size and completely rewritten in large segments. Another major shudder scene is now no more than a memory, and the way Gary starts to react to his circumstances rather than simply going with the flow actually makes sense!

Yeah. Go, me! :)

Random stats of the day:
Final word count: 47,388
Editing bar: 7,784
Words skipped: 1,805
Significant skipped sections: 2 (admittedly, one of them's the entirity of chapter 2)
Days to completion figure from yesterday: 84
Days to completion today: 42
Morale: Pretty darn good