I Live: ROW80

I’ve landed in Seattle and am living out of a suitcase. The first thing I did when I got in was break out my very neglected novel, THE FOURTH CHANNEL. Because of the move, it hadn’t been touched in over a month.

The good news is, in two days, I managed to edit/revise 20,000 words of my novel. I then shipped it off to two of my writing partners. Since then, I’ve been trying to balance writing with settling in and getting some rest.

I’ve found that I’m not so good at the resting thing.

Last week I edited/revised 8400 words. Well, there was more — another 3500 words, but I cut them from the book. Still, the progress isn’t as stellar as my 20k sprint the previous week, but it’s still a strong start. At this point, I have about 35k to go, and ROW80 will be over in one week. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it. We’ll see.

Once I’ve finished this round of cutting and chopping and hearing from my writing partners whether or not the story is sound as-is, the book will go through another round of edits. Then it goes through Tom, the silent partner behind my Vote Your Adventure series, and another writing partner of mine.

This last week, I’m really not sure what to expect. I would like to commit myself to finishing revisions in this final week of ROW80, but I’m just not sure if I can do it. I’d like to get another 20k in, but this last section is going to take a little more work than the previous sections. I’ll let you know how it goes.