my fingers are frayed
Nov. 27th, 2006 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I have finished typing up all the handwritten wraith fic fragments.
Page count: 83! Word count: 28,594!!
I am insane.
Now I must go and by heat patches for my back. And then return to have some coffee and cake and finish reading the manuscript of my book. I am up to chapter 3 in the re-reading. There are five chapters in all. I am taking Jane Smiley's advice (which, though coined for novels, works very well for academic non-fiction also, I find): Re-read the first draft as a reader, not as a writer. Try not to want to 'make it better' at this stage. Your job is to understand what the manuscript is actually about, not to judge the manuscript.
Page count: 83! Word count: 28,594!!
I am insane.
Now I must go and by heat patches for my back. And then return to have some coffee and cake and finish reading the manuscript of my book. I am up to chapter 3 in the re-reading. There are five chapters in all. I am taking Jane Smiley's advice (which, though coined for novels, works very well for academic non-fiction also, I find): Re-read the first draft as a reader, not as a writer. Try not to want to 'make it better' at this stage. Your job is to understand what the manuscript is actually about, not to judge the manuscript.