My hands are killing me. I have been working pretty much non-stop for days on end on cutting out 7,000 words from my Dear Canada diary novel.
What made it especially challenging is that I was doing the changes in “track changes” mode, meaning I couldn’t check the ever evolving word count as I worked because all of the deletes and additions showed up in hot pink and baby blue with cross-hatches going through. So I got the whole first pass finished at about 7pm tonight and saved the file, then went through and removed all of the editing notes and accepted the changes. Turns out I was able to remove 8,000 words. This is good! I’m going to let it cool off for a day or so and then take a look at it again to see if I’m happy with the changes.
Whew!
I’m itching to get back to writing Daughter of War. Perhaps in a few days ….
