I’m restarting yesterday’s challenge for today, because today is really do have to finish this editing and proofreading! I have another book to finish, and I need as few as 10k words to finish it (although it might go long, in which case, I’m really hoping I can do 20k in a week again, because a week is about all the time I have left for that one).
I’m starting at location 1997 of 4185 total locations this morning, so I have 52% of the book left to edit and proof. But really, I have a bit more, because I haven’t yet fixed the stuff I found to fix in my last reading session. So… Yeah. I really have to do a better job staying on task today and not letting my breaks eat up all my time.
Time to get to it.
The plan:
- Read in one hour sessions
- Make corrections/edit
- Break for five to ten minutes
- Do it again.
Record of time and locations (percent complete):
- 7:18 am:
- At location 1997 (48%)
- Finished edits through this location at 11:03 am
- Took much too long!!! But, to be honest, this edit encompassed the scene I mentioned in this post. I guess I’m lucky it didn’t take longer. :o Although I thought I was okay with that scene when I finished it, it still had more buggy spots left than I’d realized.
- 2:15 pm:
- At location 3084 (74%)
- I forgot to set the timer so I just read until I needed a break.
- I read for about 2 hours and made it through about 25% of the book.
- Therefore I estimate 3–4 hours to go! (reading + edits)
- I’ll be back to input these edits after a nap. :D Brain is toast. Concentrating so hard for that long is tough on me!
- At location 3084 (74%)
- 7:01 pm:
- Still at location 3084 (74%) & about to start inputting edits!
- Nap was too long, then it was time for the regular Friday balancing of my accounts, which inevitably took longer than I planned. It always does.
- Finished the edits for this session and called it a night! Boo!
- Still at location 3084 (74%) & about to start inputting edits!