April 6: The Great Gold Rush

[thewhitelily]

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

Comments

As Bob the Builder would say,

[(Anonymous)]

YES WE CAN! w00t!

Go Lily!

TPWFL

PS This is the first occasion that I have used l33t speak having previously just wished that it would go away. The things I do for my friends. :)

PPS Back to the topic at hand; Go Lily!

Re: As Bob the Builder would say,

[thewhitelily]

Thank you! :) And don't think I don't appreciate the sacrifice devolving to l33t speak level involves - from here it's a slippery slope to this. Or worse... javascript.

Re: As Bob the Builder would say,

[atl.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ. LOLCODE is *much* worse than javascript. ;)

Re: As Bob the Builder would say,

[thewhitelily]

I beg to differ with your difference. But maybe that's just because I've never been forced to debug LOLCODE, and the past few days of javascript have driven me out of all rationality. :)