Friday nightcap
Oct. 27th, 2018 02:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misterangelGood evening everyone!
I'm still trying to shake off the last traces of a cold. Everything aches and my nose is constantly dripping, but I'm managing to at least get things done.
Took me several hours this morning to post a new chapter of Mr Hook on Wattpad. I started serialising this story on G+ when I started writing it, and have posted a 1000-word-ish instalment each saturday for a little over 2 years; but going back to the start to post larger pieces on Wattpad (so it will have caught up by the time G+ ceases to exist) needs a lot of editing. This morning I realised that the next chapter seemed to have a detail that conflicts with the final chapter; and ended up reading (and editing) 7 chapters back from the end before I found the relevant numbers.
After that, I did some more editing on a story I'm tentatively renaming Lynn's Youth (could really use a better title), and found that it had two chapters missing from the middle, rather than one as I'd thought.
And after a few hours of that, I still hadn't written anything. So I went back to Hunter's Gift, and rewrote the largest part of chapter 4 (which completely contradicted the premise of the second book). Now I need a heavy rewrite of chapter 5, and to edit 7-10 properly. I hope that won't take too long.
I also got the paperback version of Nightmare Season published at last; after KDP twice rejected it for no obvious reason. That means it's out before the Kindle version (on pre-order until Tuesday), but I think that's better than being late.
Then, eventually, settled down to add another hour to the Big Little Bus; bringing my total words written for the day up to 3526; and just over 90k for the month so far.
Sales on A Little Request seem to have stopped now. So it was a neat little triangle, accounting for 13 readers. Still a pretty good number, and I wonder if I'll get some more if I release another book in the same genre.
All in all, a good day. How was yours?
I'm still trying to shake off the last traces of a cold. Everything aches and my nose is constantly dripping, but I'm managing to at least get things done.
Took me several hours this morning to post a new chapter of Mr Hook on Wattpad. I started serialising this story on G+ when I started writing it, and have posted a 1000-word-ish instalment each saturday for a little over 2 years; but going back to the start to post larger pieces on Wattpad (so it will have caught up by the time G+ ceases to exist) needs a lot of editing. This morning I realised that the next chapter seemed to have a detail that conflicts with the final chapter; and ended up reading (and editing) 7 chapters back from the end before I found the relevant numbers.
After that, I did some more editing on a story I'm tentatively renaming Lynn's Youth (could really use a better title), and found that it had two chapters missing from the middle, rather than one as I'd thought.
And after a few hours of that, I still hadn't written anything. So I went back to Hunter's Gift, and rewrote the largest part of chapter 4 (which completely contradicted the premise of the second book). Now I need a heavy rewrite of chapter 5, and to edit 7-10 properly. I hope that won't take too long.
I also got the paperback version of Nightmare Season published at last; after KDP twice rejected it for no obvious reason. That means it's out before the Kindle version (on pre-order until Tuesday), but I think that's better than being late.
Then, eventually, settled down to add another hour to the Big Little Bus; bringing my total words written for the day up to 3526; and just over 90k for the month so far.
Sales on A Little Request seem to have stopped now. So it was a neat little triangle, accounting for 13 readers. Still a pretty good number, and I wonder if I'll get some more if I release another book in the same genre.
All in all, a good day. How was yours?
