I have to remember that this isn't a final draft I'm polishing. CoB was half-way finished when life interrupted writing a year ago. Now that I've been getting back into writing making my pieces marketable, when I'm completing the rough draft of CoB, I spend too much time rereading/revising and editing on the spot. I need to stop doing that or this will never get finished.

June has whipped by and I feel like I'm a little behind because I forgot how much was actually left to finish CoB. Hopeful...
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I am so into this edit and revision of Ulterior Motive it's all I've been able to think about. Along with the need to slash some serious word count down, I'm also trying to subjectively look at the plot. Finding and answering loopholes, addressing character depth, evaluating tonality, and cutting verbose passages.

I'm half-way through the edit/revision and have killed about 2500 words. I need to kill about 10K more. I see where there is opportunity to do so, which is a good thing. I always wo...
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