Today’s brief update: I went into my Cane Toad section and reviewed it. I worked on structure and coded my really rough notes into a draft outline. This meant putting pieces about the same thing together. I structur. Tomorrow, I’ll tighten each section down to remove all repetition, get the tense correct, make it short as possible. Wednesday, I’ll step back and look at the whole.
While I was at it, I put into order the section on places where I did fieldwork, and describe the work of writing in the field.
In total, I have 6,000 words that are in a tentative order. Is it a perfect? Good? No. Will it change, yes. But, it gives me something to work on tomorrow. I will take each small section of maybe 150 or 200 words and edit them individually.
Once I’ve done that, I can review the whole and see what I have on Thursday.
So far, 6,200 words. A win. I’d say. It’ll give me 2,500 words a day, give or take. On track for NaNoWriMo, I hope. But, word counts are somewhat silly if I think too hard about them. But, since my goal is not a word count, but a draft in a few weeks, it feels okay.
