Writing Update

So, a few days ago I reached the end of my Editing Goal Stage 1! I don't really have a lot to say here but basically I decided to tackle small edits first rather than the Bigger Stuff (adding scenes and finishing off ones I ran out of steam for) because I figured if I just ran straight into adding scenes, it'd feel like the same stage as Writing The First Draft and that might tire me out, so I went to the smaller edits first. Small bits of continuity, bits of dialogue I was unhappy with, making the emotional tone more coherent, that sort of thing. I did add Some scenes when they occured to me, and I noted down where I needed new ones, but largely I just did small stuff. I didn't do it as quickly as I hoped but I still ended up averaging out at four pages a day, which I'm okay with tbh. (I did fifteen pages the first day, which skewed my average and made me think I was gonna finish it in a month, which I Did Not (it took me three and a half)).

The stage I'm in right now is a really simple stage, just going through and fixing where I've written 'you' when I should have written 'thee". Thee/thou is A Part of my dialect but I use it really rarely and I keep running up against bits where I'm thinking too hard and can't quite tell Which (i know object/subject but I'm not very good at that either), but I'm halfway done and I'm sure my dear Keats in their infinite wonderful cleverness will be able to tell me what doesn't sound right.

So it's basically finish this stage, which won't take long touch wood, and then Scenes. Shit. Gods alive, folks. Tbh I think my absolute ideal would be to finish at about my birthday, which I did manage for the first draft, which would....if I started on let's say 1st of May....actually crunching the numbers of how much I think I'll have to add? might be doable. Maybe.