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Date Posted: 12:00:37 10/26/10 Tue
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Subject: This is true >>>>
In reply to: debikm 's message, "A chapter can be anmy length you want it to be" on 06:43:48 10/22/10 Fri

I remember one that reads in its entirety: "Nothing much happened for the next two weeks."

I have added one more paragraph to explain why Katie doesn't just move out, but this chapter is still shorter than most of the others in the book. I suppose as long as it gets its point across it doesn't matter how many words it contains. My objectivity with this &(^%& manuscript is out the window. Honestly, I don't think it should take this long to finish it. It's not like I'm writing War and Peace or of DG's books. I'm beginning to think it's just fear of having to query that keeps me trying to "perfect" this book. I may just need a good swift kick in the keister! *G*

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[> [> [> [> Re: This is true >>>> -- Page2, 21:13:32 10/26/10 Tue

>I remember one that reads in its entirety: "Nothing
>much happened for the next two weeks."

LOL...and an editor let that get through. Gee! Still funny.

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>I have added one more paragraph to explain why
>Katie doesn't just move out, but this chapter is still
>shorter than most of the others in the book. I
>suppose as long as it gets its point across it doesn't
>matter how many words it contains. My objectivity
>with this &(^%& manuscript is out the window.
>Honestly, I don't think it should take this long to
>finish it. It's not like I'm writing War and Peace or
>of DG's books. I'm beginning to think it's just fear
>of having to query that keeps me trying to "perfect"
>this book. I may just need a good swift kick in the
>keister! *G*

I feel the same way Juli. Tell you what, I'll edit the hell out of yours and you can slash mine.

I'm losing my mind on what to keep in/take out/ revise this/change this. I took 355 words out of the last chapter cuz I changed the POV but now I feel like I lost something. Why is editing so darn hard? Query...well, I'm almost there on that but I refuse to finish it until the story is revised.

Let me know if you want to take me up on that offer. I'll gladly switch. If Aiden or Tiernan yells at me one more time to stop touching their ummm... er... parts (ha haha) I have no idea why they don't believe me when I say I'm going to make it bigger and better.

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[> [> [> [> [> Slashing going on as we speak >>>> --

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I'll be more than happy to have you slash away, my friend! I'm doing some heavy slashing of my own at the moment, though, thanks to Esther's astute observation that I really don't need this chapter. It's made me realize that there are a lot of things in this book I don't need, but I've kept them in there, editing the hell out of them with each revision, just because I wrote them in the first draft. Instead of polishing them, I needed to toss them and bring the things that happened in the book in a different way, one with fewer words and info dump chapters.

So if my &#(%& computer will let me work on it I can hopefully trim this baby down a lot without losing anything. (And the way the computer has been acting that's a big "if!") As soon as I reach the point where I think I've got it, I'll send the file along to you!

Hugs,
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