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snurriBook. Is. Finished.
It's drafty, to the extent where if I was to hold it up to your ear you could probably hear it whistle. But it's a thing to work with, and I know what most of the stuff is that needs fixing.
I was curious as to how long this took, and since I'm horrible at keeping track of things I went looking back through the blog. It looks like I must have started in early August. So, about eight months, during most of which time I was still working part-time. For some reason I thought I'd started later, but this makes more sense. If you're hoping for a word count, I don't have one, 'cause most of it is still just longhand. Much typing in my future.
Oh man, it feels good to be done. Now I will sleep.
P.S. This is the new, unsold book, just to forestall any confusion. We start edits on Superpowers hopefully next week-ish.
It's drafty, to the extent where if I was to hold it up to your ear you could probably hear it whistle. But it's a thing to work with, and I know what most of the stuff is that needs fixing.
I was curious as to how long this took, and since I'm horrible at keeping track of things I went looking back through the blog. It looks like I must have started in early August. So, about eight months, during most of which time I was still working part-time. For some reason I thought I'd started later, but this makes more sense. If you're hoping for a word count, I don't have one, 'cause most of it is still just longhand. Much typing in my future.
Oh man, it feels good to be done. Now I will sleep.
P.S. This is the new, unsold book, just to forestall any confusion. We start edits on Superpowers hopefully next week-ish.
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Date: 2007-04-07 12:24 pm (UTC)Would you care to explain why you have to write it out longhand first? I'm curious about that in general, how it makes a difference with people whether or not they type or handwrite. Yeah, I'm a big ole nerd...
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Date: 2007-04-07 03:36 pm (UTC)I don't know exactly why longhand works for me, but I tend to use it for first drafts. My feeling, though I can't prove it, is that it forces my brain to work differently, and it definitely forces me to measure my words; when I type, my fingers tend to go a little faster than my brain, and so I end up with more crap that will end up being thrown out. It also helps in revision, I find, because I'm not as wedded to the words once it comes time to type them in.