I am severely underestimating the amount of time "giving the draft another read" takes anymore.

The upside, despite all the anxiety of my last post, is that I just had a great experience. It seems, upon reading all 161 pages of the draft, I rather enjoyed it.

In fact, I’m not quite sure where the disconnect is. There is a minor tone shift in the last two chapters, but it seems more due to the fact that they are a bit tense-shifted, because they are told montage-style, with a lot of compressed time. Most things before that had a different pace, and were told in strict present tense. Reading it didn’t seem jarring, though.

I actually had to figure out what the issue was after finishing. So, I think it just seemed awkward from that perspective.

So, the only thing lost is a day of writing, because despite a nap today, it is 12:30 a.m., and I am beat, and unable to write, err, yesterday’s 2,000 words.

It will just have to be sleep, and starting over with a renewed sense of accomplishment instead. Which, admittedly, is fine.

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