I know it's early, but the revisions are done for the day. After an intense gym effort this morning, I managed to sit down and reread the beginning of chapter 5 and pick up where I left off yesterday, in the middle of a riot. Things went smoothly (well, as smooth as riots get anyway) from there and so I finished off chapter 5. I was in some shock since by the time I was done, I'd added almost 15 pages to the chapter. However, after reading the last scene in that chapter, I realized that a significant chunk of that last scene was . . . worthless. I was uneasy about the scene in the first draft, but felt that what it said was necessary and so left it in. But after some of the changes I've made during revisions to earlier stuff, I don't think the part I was uneasy about should remain. It doesn't do anything for the plot as it is now, and so *snip, snip* it's gone. That meant I only added 10 pages to the chapter.
*shrug*
I don't think my editor is concerned all that much about length. I'm still right around 100,000 words, which is what the contract states. If I start pushing 120,000 words, I might start to get worried. But this IS DAW after all. I think I have the shortest novel they've published in the last 10 years already, so . . .
I did a quick scan of chapter 6, but can't really take a look at it until tomorrow. I've got a dinner/banquet thing to go to tonight (notice I didn't call it a ball
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pbray). And I seriously need to get some of the exams my students took last week graded. That's enough to finish out my day, I believe.
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