The end begins…
Well, it is all ready to go now.
In the past two or three days, I’ve read every scrap of paper, every draft, and every last thing ever written for however many years I’ve been at this book.
I cut and pasted every piece of information into a document to ensure everything interesting from every draft ever written has a chance to make it into the final draft.
Everything from that document was then pasted to the end of its appropriate chapter in the document I’ll be working from.
There is now a timeline that shows the duration of time between every event in the book, which is a MUCH longer timeframe than I would have imagined. It happened in a much tighter timeframe in my head, but given the nature of the events in the book (various character’s weight losses, writing a book, other time-based factors), it is good to see how it all pans out logically.
So, tomorrow, I will begin the final edit of the penultimate draft of the book.
For the record, just to see what happens, I am starting with a document that contains 765 pages, 196,727 words, 2,251 paragraphs, and 57 chapters. (I work in Courier, 14pt type, double spaced; so bigger text than normal, just to make it easier on me for long periods of screen time. It would never be 765 pages if you printed it out at a more normal size/spacing)
The document with all the rescued bits, which are now part of that draft, contained 25 pages, and 2,852 words, and many of them may not make the cut. Just wanted to delineate what is just pasted to the end of the chapters, versus what is text ready to be massaged and edited.
And there you have it. Not sure how many updates will occur during the writing. We shall see…
