Saturday, April 16, 2005
92K. I cut an entire chapter and got rid of all the narrative my agent said was bogging things down. (She didn't say it was bogging things down, but that's what it was doing.) Once I started looking at the narrative she meant, I can recall thinking, well, maybe I can get away with it. The answer, no. This is precisely why writing is not a do-it-alone endeavor. Anyway, I saved the important parts from the chapter I cut, got them into the following chapter where they needed to be. Now when I read from chapter 14 straight to 16 without 15 in here bogging things down it's way better. Massively better. I cut some stuff I really, really liked. Sigh. But it's better to wave to them sitting there in the dead chapter section. I have no idea how I'm going to get myself back to 95K, but that's a worry for tomorrow.
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