Paksworld

Today’s work was cautious fiddling with the changes already made…should this go here?  Or here?   Should this bit go before or after that bit?   Read some sections aloud.   Ick, a clunky chunk, away with it.   A fossil of an earlier draft: away with that, too.  But this bit from yet another draft…should go back in, maybe?  Put it in, took it out, put it back in, decided to “save as” an alternate form of the chapter.Got up and walked around.   Chopped an onion and some garlic and made chili with mostly venison and a little pork sausage–put that on to cook and went back to the chapters.  So, OK, if this goes here…then will that go five chapters down, or six?    Drat, another fossil.  How did I not see that weeks ago?   Excise.  But wait…it connects to something two chapters on, doesn’t it?  (This is where I find it hard to deal with the file on computer alone.  I need pages to flip and hold back.)    No, it doesn’t.  Whew.   Save with the excision.

But that leaves a rough transition.   Who said the next sentence?  Does it now make sense in light of the previous sentence?    Back out of edit mode, into draft mode…sink into the characters with the new order of things–now what do they feel?  How would they say that?   What do you mean you wouldn’t say that at all?  Well, what are you saying?

A finicky day.  A day with many an “Arg! No!” in it.