So as per my promise I was going to spend one hour at least between both novels or everyone was to completely ignore me tomorrow. I figured I was safe with that, if I ran out of steam editing the one, I could always go and write part of the other. Well it worked! I won’t be a social pariah tomorrow… I spent 1 hour and 10 minutes editing my NaNoWriMo novel!
My task tonight was fairly simple. Go through the bits that I had sorted into semi-related piles and put the entire novel in the right order. That meant actually reading the majority of the novel (granted I did skim parts but still…) And, it’s done! The whole thing is in the right order and ready to be properly retyped for a good edit!
I’ve definitely got a love-hate relationship with this project right now. Parts of it I love, and the general concept is in my mind really neat. But, there is of course a but… writing such a complicated a twisted story for NaNoWriMo where you basically just write until your fingers bleed, may not have been my best idea ever. There are a lot of continuity issues where I am going somewhere, and I mostly know where that is, but it never develops properly.
Had a brain storm in the car the other day driving home from teaching and I figured out how to resolve it into the ending that I think is brilliant. Now it will be a matter of re-writing. As you can see, there are a lot of post-its sticking out marking spots that need re-working or things that I need to remember.
I have one little orphaned section that contains information necessary for the story but I can’t figure out where exactly to work it in. We will have to see how that comes together.
Now for some well earned Oblivion time…
