Progress report:
Last time looked at: 2/17/17
Last actual wordage added: 2/17/17
Pages added, 2/17/17: 0.
Current page count: 489
Estimated final page count: 490-525?
Deadline: None, but Wildside says they’ll send me a contract any day
now.
Comments: That got complicated.
I’ve rearranged all the chapters, but then there were formatting issues and WordPerfect crashed and… well, things got a bit damaged. No text was lost, but I’m still cleaning up dropped indents and so on.
You will recall that I wasn’t happy with how the different storylines matched up. I had them arranged like this (M=Morvash, D=Darissa, H=Hakin):
MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMHMHMHMHMHMHMHM… (That was as far as I’d gotten in the second draft.)
Well, now they’re MDMDMDMHDMHDMHDMHDMMHMMHMMHM… And everything lines up nicely. I think it actually has a better flow, too, starting Hakin’s story earlier.
I’m only up to Chapter Twenty-One with the formatting clean-up, and I still want to tweak the chronology a bit (two different sequences wound up in the month of Longdays, ten years apart, which I think is a potential source of confusion).
So there’s more I should do, but it’s past my bedtime.
Word-count is now 121,331