The Days Are Just Packed     
The ongoing saga of David D. Levine's writing and other adventures.

I'm a geek, fan, and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. For more information about me, please see my web page. If you have questions, comments, or just want to chat, you can send me e-mail. Or you can post a comment on my LiveJournal.

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2/18/05: Cue the spy music

Word count: 120917 | Since last entry: 588 | This month: 2964

Finished up the revisions to the first Jason chapter, in which Jason creeps about to steal the biocomputer. Raised the tension in the creeping-about scene by adding a couple near-misses of being discovered. Also went back and re-edited the scene with Honor and Jason some more. It's amazing how much cascading effect can occur from dropping one sentence -- since Clarity's sept name was revealed for the first time in that sentence, and I couldn't find anyplace else in the chapter to slip that information in naturally, later sentences referring to that name had to be rewritten as well.

It's improving. It's coming along, slowly. I persevere.

Thanks to Kate for going off square-dancing and encouraging me to stay home and write. 588 net words doesn't seem like much but I know the change is significant.

Posted 02/18/2005 23:08 [e-mail me] [post comment] [permalink]

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