Progress

I spent this morning doing rewrites on my first chapter. Actually, I cut my first "chapter," after admitting to myself that it was really a thinly disguised prologue that didn't add anything to the story, re-numbered Chapter Two, and started re-writing that. One thing about NaNoWriMo that will probably keep me from participating in it again is that it encourages wordiness. I mostly spent the morning deleting excessive verbiage and tightening up my dialogue, and finally just throwing out the scene and redoing it practically from scratch. It's a lot tighter now, and looking at it makes me feel much better about my writing ability--but also frustrated that if I hadn't been so focused on word count it probably would have been a lot tighter in the first place and saved me a lot of extra work.

Speaking of the novel, I went through the writing blog and removed all of the chapters I had posted there. Maybe I'll repost them someday, but right now they're definitely not ready for prime time, and having them out there isn't doing me, my novel, or its future prospects any favors.

Work is sporadically busy today, and I have to leave for a while to go to the dentist this afternoon, but somewhere in there I'm going to try to squeeze out the rest of an article I started last week for Associated Content, and maybe also try to do another angel entry, if there's time before I have to shut down the personal stuff and concentrate on filing.

Guess I'd better quit gabbing and get to it.