I'm getting back to the book... Perhaps I never really leave it but I don't focus on it like I should. I don't actually focus on anything like I should. But - I am endevouring to change that. Over the next few months I am going to revise the whole damned thing - top to bottom. I'll keep track of my progress here. In part to keep me honest and in part to keep me motivated. I want to take the 68,000 words that it currently is (having had so MUCH chopped out of it) and take that to roughly 90,000 words of polished, tight prose with some actual description and atmosphere now that I know I have some wiggle room with my word count.
So - i'll do it chapter by chapter - initial word count, revised word count - what makes it better. The goal is to do 3 chapters a week at least. Ultimately I want it done by the end of April... then i can get a beta reader or two or thirty and start work on my query.... I had wanted to have it done and ready by June... probably won't make that but I'd like to come close....
~S