The plan...
Apr. 28th, 2009 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
martinlivingsOkay, so I have a novel manuscript sitting on around 60000 words of first draft. By July 31st, it needs to be around 90000 words of final draft.
How hard could it be?
I hereby declare that May is officially going to be MaNoWaMo tm, or Martin's Novel Waffling Month. One thousand words a day, minimum. By the end of May, the manuscript will be more or less the right length. I'm not going to be doing any real editing of the existing text, just throwing new stuff into it as it occurs, without much thought to structure or, let's face it, sense. It should be fun.
June and July, then, are MaNoPoMo's tm, or Martin's Novel Polishing Months. One full pass for each month. So, around 3000 words a day of careful polishing and editing will do a complete edit in June, and then another in July. I think this is going to be significantly less fun than MaNoWaMo tm, somehow!
As the Chinese supposedly say, may you live in interesting times... eesh...
How hard could it be?
I hereby declare that May is officially going to be MaNoWaMo tm, or Martin's Novel Waffling Month. One thousand words a day, minimum. By the end of May, the manuscript will be more or less the right length. I'm not going to be doing any real editing of the existing text, just throwing new stuff into it as it occurs, without much thought to structure or, let's face it, sense. It should be fun.
June and July, then, are MaNoPoMo's tm, or Martin's Novel Polishing Months. One full pass for each month. So, around 3000 words a day of careful polishing and editing will do a complete edit in June, and then another in July. I think this is going to be significantly less fun than MaNoWaMo tm, somehow!
As the Chinese supposedly say, may you live in interesting times... eesh...
