The Writer's Life. Revision #2.

45,000 words to cut. Score card. 22,000 done, 23,000 more to go.

Question: "Can I cut 1000 words before breakfast?"
Answer:   "Done!"

Of course, it is not quite that arbitrary or easy, but once the knife has been sharpened it starts to get easier.

"There, you were a good sentence, still are, but you don't really belong here."
Ruthlessly I draw the delete line  through the words of that sentence and it is gone.

Then : Breakfast!

More to come soon... Or go...

The Writer's Life. Revision.

I am revising a manuscript.  At this point, I have managed to cut 20,000 words. Do you suppose the next 20,000 will be easier or harder? Yes, Yes, Yes - it was way TOO long!