I need to be accountable for today’s editing and proofreading work, and that’s a fact. Yesterday, I did not come close to finishing and I really needed to. So today is it. I must work, stay focused, and get this done, even if it takes all day.
Consider it a challenge: I must finish my edits and proofreading for this book today.
I’m starting at location 641 of 4185 total locations this morning, meaning I have 85% of the book left to edit and proof.
I’m going to follow a pattern today, to see if it helps me get into a groove and maybe eliminate the overwhelm that usually comes at the end when I realize I have 32 Kindle screens worth of highlights in the “Notes” section to deal with. The plan is to have nothing left there when I’m done but the bigger issues I need to double check or fix.
The plan:
- Read in
1/2 hourone hour sessions - Make corrections/edit
- Break for five to ten minutes
- Do it again.
Record of time and locations (percent complete):
- 8:49 am:
- At location 641 (15%)
- 9:43 am:
- At location 856 (21%)
- And I’ve already discovered that 30 minutes is just too short. I’m going to do an hour of reading for the rest of the sessions.
- Finished edits for this session at 10:18 am
- At location 856 (21%)
- 2:28 pm:
- At location 1412 (34%)
- Finished the last reading session around 11:30 am, but then lost 2.5 hours to lunch and several interruptions, and lost another half hour to Kboards.* I also feel like I need a nap, but I really don’t have time for one.
- At location 1412 (34%)
- 5:02 pm or somewhere thereabouts:
- At location 1997 (48%)
It’s 9:06 pm and bedtime and I’m not going to finish. I’ll have to do this all over again tomorrow. And the high tomorrow is forecast to be 88°F, with an air quality alert for ozone, and I still have no A/C. :o I’m really starting to wonder if the part they need to fix my unit is ever going to arrive. It’s been 4 weeks now.
*I’m going to have to start staying away from forums and blogs and other writer communities unless I have real downtime (not downtime between writing sessions, etc., but actual downtime, when I’ve already finished everything I need to do for the day and just want to do something to pass the time.