PWN, PWN, PWN!! *dances about*
Holy CARP, that was hard!
Here’s how it broke down, for the curious:
| 03/01/10 | 99 | 03/09/10 | 40 | 03/17/10 | 120 | 03/25/10 | 10 |
| 03/02/10 | 80 | 03/10/10 | 10 | 03/18/10 | 300 | 03/26/10 | 20 |
| 03/03/10 | 60 | 03/11/10 | 40 | 03/19/10 | 120 | 03/27/10 | 240 |
| 03/04/10 | 10 | 03/12/10 | 60 | 03/20/10 | 270 | 03/28/10 | 120 |
| 03/05/10 | 0 | 03/13/10 | 120 | 03/21/10 | 180 | 03/29/10 | 20 |
| 03/06/10 | 240 | 03/14/10 | 420 | 03/22/10 | 0 | 03/30/10 | 40 |
| 03/07/10 | 180 | 03/15/10 | 10 | 03/23/10 | 0 | 03/31/10 | 35 |
| 03/08/10 | 30 | 03/16/10 | 30 | 03/24/10 | 100 | Target: | 3000 |
| Target: | 774 | Target: | 1548 | Target: | 2323 | FTW!! | 3004 |
| Actual: | 699 | Actual: | 1429 | Actual: | 2519 |
As my edit-buddy said last night, this was the worst month of our writing lives. It was also (for me, at least) a huge learning experience. Much of it is hard to actually articulate–it’s things like “learned to judge the merits of a scene faster and easier” or “discovered yet again that my muses sometimes work better when taken entirely away from the problem to search for a creative answer.”
The biggest and most important thing I learned? I can successfully edit while working. It may not be as glamorous (hah!) as a caffeine-fueled vacation-time edit-fest, but it can be done.
Tremble in fear, all you untouched-in-years first drafts!
WELL DONE!!!