Weekend Update Editing Edition

Oof. For possibly the first time ever, I have completely deleted a full chapter of a story. Chapter 1 of The Balance of Light needed to go, unfortunately. It served no real purpose other than to set a mood. This was after a week of trying to make it work somehow, but no matter what I tried, it wasn't working. Having Chapter 2 as the new Chapter 1 made more sense for multiple reasons: it's a much stronger, more immediate scene and sets the pace for the rest of the book. [In the process, deleting this scene will cause the deletion (or a massive rewrite) of a few scenes further on, eliminating a rather weak subplot.]

This editing job really is going to be brutal, quite possibly the harshest wielding of a red pen that I've ever had to do. This version is over 200k words -- MUCH too long. This is precisely why I didn't give myself a deadline for this one, because it's going to take quite some time to clean this one up. Wish me luck!

Meanwhile, my other writing projects seem to be coming along just fine. I'd been wanting to schedule my WordPress blog posts for some time now, and finally gave myself time to build up a backlog. I'm also jumping back into the daily 750 words...I may not be able to hit that on a consistent basis just yet, but I'm at least giving it a shot again. For the post part I'm staying with my current whiteboard schedule, so that's a good thing. As long as I'm working on something every day, I'm fine with that. :)