It’s Copyedit Time—Over Halfway There!
The copyedit work station, with the "box half full", ie pages yet to be looked at---and the completed chapters at front.
So here it is—the pictorial evidence that I am now officially over half way through the manuscipt. Actually I am now beyond half way as I have completed another 65 pages since the photo was taken yesterday: definitely a wOOt moment!
So here’s the countdown:
– Target pages per day to finish by August 31: 100 (ie so this is not going to happen, given my best single rate to date was 71 pages in a day)
– Pages completed to date: 428
– Pages until completion (including glossary): 300
So although I am not going to meet the original ‘best case’ target of having a completed ms back in New York by Wednesday 31, I am pretty confident I will have the whole shebang en route by the close-of-play Friday 2nd at the latest—a clear week ahead of my ‘worst case’ target. And I am pretty happy with that!
Just gotta keep up that focused work for another 5 days …
Wanna know the really good part though—so far, that Gathering story is just rocking along! 🙂
Yay – you’re doing great!
Better to take a bit longer to do an excellent job, rather than less than your best.
Toot, toot!
Thanks, Jan!
Wow, that looks quiet daunting when you see it all stacked up like that!
It is always quite daunting when you first get that big pile of paper—and the only thing to be done is get started: get to work on the first word, line, and page … And when you get to the end, well, then you’re done. 😉
more beeps and tooting to order. Keep going!
Yay—having recently been there yourself ‘you will know.’🙂
Awesome – keep up the hard work 🙂
Thanks, Alicia!