Although recovery is tedious, I have been able to drop the nanna naps in favour of reading and...tarantara...doing a pernickety edit on WiW. I'm fine as long as I pace myself. Was hoping to go back to work tomorrow, but I think working from home may have to suffice, and may also allow me to continue some work on WiW - 2000 needless words cut out and counting.
I think I've talked about the pernickety edit before. It's when I use find and replace to go through the entire manuscript and look for weasel words that just don't need to be in there. I have a loooong list of offences: phrases, words and even part words. It takes days, sometimes weeks to do this edit properly, so I leave it as close to the end of the process if I can - because if I do any major rewrites, I make myself do it again. Hoping I haven't jumped the gun this time, because two betas are still reading. However, if I make changes, I think I already know where it's going to happen, so I should be able to do a miniature pernickety edit on that section.
I might just browse round the koala victims later today to see if you are all being as virtuous as I am.
Reading: I read Stephen King's 'Under the Dome'. Hm. Slightly disappointing work from The Master this time. Has anyone else read it?
Glad you're feeling a bit better.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're on the mend, even though it means I shall have to start wearing tha anti-marsupial armour again.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm with you on the pernickety edits. I'm de-inging at the moment and it's very time consuming.
Glad you're feeling better. Post your list of words and phrases please. I have my own but I'm sure there are some that need to be added...
ReplyDeleteGood idea ss, coming up. Thanks Fairy and Whirl!
ReplyDeleteI am being virtuous, honest!
ReplyDeleteI hope you are feeling back up to scratch now!