This draft is dragging it's ass. My rough draft usually takes a bit of time, and the next one is my rewrite draft, which takers longer. This one is frustratingly long. Yesterday, I did 15 pages of editing, most of which was scene splicing and rewriting. Today I did most of a sequence and then wrote 5 scenes. They fleshed out my second-stringers pretty well, and they escalated the action. And this one needed more mass anyway, but still. It feels like all I did was patch holes in the story. And it's part of the process, I know. But still, it added about 15 pages more to edit. But I'd need to let these scenes sit for a bit if my rewrite is to be any good. And that means putting it off.
Instead I'm trying to be very deliberate in my writing goals, and knock out bits of the spot-edit draft along the way. I mean, the spot edit draft is pretty much just going through things and changing bits. Like using "dominus" instead of "sir." It's more busy work than actual work.
So I guess I have the next hour off. Looks like it's Disney music and Family Guy. Anything to offset the horrors I've been writing for the past day. Act 3 is an escalation, and this is a very Game of Thrones-esque story. Horrors aplenty. Makes me pretty certain it'll work out in the end, but still. Too much murderous thinking takes a toll on you.
I need a drink. ANOTHER drink.
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