Sunday 14 June 2009

Editing Termion, Post * 6

Kinda funny that I'm posting this while in the middle of editing chapter 6 :)

Today great progress has been made! I managed to finish the edit of chapter 4, edit chapter 5, and start chapter 6. I was due to work on chapter 6 for another hour. Unfortunately, my extremely early wake up this morning (4am...2 hours earlier than normal) means I am now crashing. Editing isn't a good idea. I need a passive activity. I couldn't be responsible for strange typos. Strange ideas, well my muse handles that part of my wip all too well. She made a secondary character (who is probably more like a tertiary character) throw knives then collect them at the end of somersault!

Words were deleted, but in each chapter the final word count increased. Chapter 6 - well, I hope to finish that tomorrow. It was originally a quiet chapter after a series of tense scenes (I know what a scene is now! Thanks Inky!). Only now there's more tension, with an earlier appearance of the Count, and more layers to Bankar's life. This is all thanks to my secondary character, Jinna's father, Tarc. His perspective is adding another depth to Termion. Whoohoo!

Although I'm not as far as I'd like to be, concerning that deadline, I have no doubts that I'll catch up (somehow). Keep watching this space. You never know what my Muse will think of next.

3 comments:

Danyelle L. said...

You can do it! (Lest the flaming spoon finds you!)

Tess said...

Hurrah! Progress is so inspiring for all of us :) May the muse continue to be with you....

Angela Ackerman said...

You're doing great--keep it up!