I'm most of the way through Part One of the manuscript now. It took me only like, a month and a half! Not really, I only got back to working on it the other day. I've had a... chaotic past couple months. But I'm back to it now!
Now that I'm home from school and safely nestled in the backwoods of New Jersey, caught up on sleep, and have more than two days to prepare for the next larping event, I actually have time. It's a nice feeling, not having finals or papers or Macbeth taking up 20 out of my 24 hours a day.
So the progress: I'm over halfway through Part One. The writing is a bit (or a lot) iffy at some parts, especially in the very beginning so I see why I got so frustrated with it on the first edit. I'm not changing much on the read-through except for miswordings and typos every once in a while. Once I do my major edits I'm planning a third edit to go through and fix the writing more, and that should smooth everything over. I've not found anything unfixable yet, so it's not a frustrating experience [yet].
My notebook is separated by chapter, and I've run into relatively few problems so far, which I'm glad of. Most of it is just tone and writing things. But then again, Part One was never the part I was worried about for logistical inconsistencies, just writing. Hopefully the rest of the manuscript will follow this kind of predictability in what needs to be fixed.
I'm going to get back to it, now! Hope you all are having a great summer so far!
