I’ve successfully added about 13,000 words to my manuscript — one word at a time. Don’t laugh, BBs — I mean one word or two words per sentence at a time, a few longer sentences here and there. But overall it’s been cut three, add one, add another, cut a few more.
This is grueling.
It’s not like writing, where I can just…go. It’s not like my normal revising, either, because honestly by the time I’m done with a book even in first draft it’s in pretty decent shape. Typos, sections that have to be added or switched around or deleted, sure, but not this painstaking one sentence at a time gleaning for content.
I’m approximately halfway through the current manuscript which means less than half since I need to add sections. Not just words for the sake of length, but pieces I left out of the original story — remember, I wrote this about six or seven years ago, and it was too short, then.
Even so, it’s not yet 9 am and I’m going to take a shower (late on that today) make some coffee and get to work. Buckle down. I planted longer term crops in Farmville so I don’t have to check it as often. THAT my doves, is dedication.
If you’ve not yet acquired your copy of Pleasure and Purpose, might I kindly suggest you do so, as its sister book, No Greater Pleasure, is due out in a couple weeks. Not that you have to read both to understand them individually, because you don’t. But you might want to.
NGP is less explicit than P and P and I actually wrote it first. Quilla was my first Handmaiden, Gabriel my first patron. I wrote THAT book a long time ago too. It seems like projects I thought would never see the light of day are having their turn, now.
Interesting.
In other news, I would like a t-shirt that says “There’s a very short list of people who get to tell me what to do, and you’re not on it.” Sort of like “I can only please so many people a day and you’re not one of them” Either that or the shirt might say SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED.
But ya know, a good ruler is benevolent, and having people give you what you want because they hate or fear you instead of doing it because they want to please you, well, that’s just not any fun!
I have a big “life event” coming up in the next few months and wow, there’s a lot of planning involved. And a lot of minutia (how the heck do you spell that) that simply shouldn’t, in my opinion, be the focus. Imprinted cocktail napkins? Really? C’mon, life’s too short to fuss about that sort of thing.
Head down. Back to work. Just keep swimming…
M
