Novel Watch #43: [107.5/4]
Progress continues to be slow. Which means only one thing: time for a new rubric! I’ve started on Draft 3 — but at the same time I really want to get to the end of any draft, as it helps to have the previous stuff there for when I get there in the new draft. So, here’s the new plan: the number before the / is my current total for the second draft, while the number after the / is my total pages of the third draft. As you can see, I have a whopping 4 pages there.
However, those 4 pages are in general better than the corresponding pages of the previous draft. My hope is to write enough of the third draft that I can nail down what I need to know about what my characters are up to that I can then simultaneously move forward to where my 2nd draft currently awaits expansion. Then I’ll be writing two stories at once, only they’ll be the same story. Wow!
My goal for November is now to write the third draft through the first main arc of the story — then finish a draft, one way or another. I have high hopes for the first one if I can get myself moving faster. The second goal is probably going to be a bit harder.