Hope this isn’t an ask you get all the time, but how do you track your progress when you’re doing editing? Everyone talks about word goals, and that seems fine for a first draft, but doesn’t make sense to me when it comes to revisions. Do you have any kind of system for setting daily goals for your revisions?
Actually, I don’t think anyone’s ever asked me about this. 🙂 So no sweat.
Briefly: I think you’re wise in not attempting wordcounting in this phase of dealing with an MS—or trying to push yourself into a structure so rigid. …There’s this, too: there’s a whole lot too much emphasis out there at the moment on trying to force yourself into other people’s writing and editing paradigms—so many of them riddled with bar graphs and “demonstrable” daily progress. You need to find what works for you. More words dealt with in a day, sure, that’s encouraging in its way. But are they the right words?
(Adding a break here. Under the cut: advice + advice = advice, and some images of text I shouldn’t be letting y’all see just yet… but WTF.)
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