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Re-writing and a Tot Up of Weekly Words

27/6/2015

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This week, I wrote a piece on how to do editing/rewriting for this website.

Creating writers’ resources and news articles for this website works well for me because it’s educational. Writing about re-writing made me think about book number two (Two Slices of Carrot Cake) and its progression. It’s at first draft stage and I know it’s too full of extraneous detail and exposition.

There are chapters that are self-indulgent, chapters that do not move the story on and pieces that I have used to add in some anecdote that doesn’t belong, but just because I liked it.

So… time to start on the re-write.

Writing about how to do a re-write also made me think about book number three, currently in progression. When I’ve been writing this one, I have felt myself wandering and going off on tangents and the chairperson in my head snaps to attention. “Is this relevant? Back to the point please!”

Anyway, because I like stats and figures I thought I’d tot up my approximate weekly word count

  • Book number three - 5,300 words 
  • Rewrite of book number two - 600 words 
  • Paid work – 7,900 words for clients 
  • CBP website words – 1,500
  • Total – 15,200 (approx.).

What’s your weekly word count this week?

Massive disclaimer: saying that I have written two books and am in the process of writing a third might make me sound impressive. Bear in mind that I might have written them, I might even have published one of them – but are they any good? Copies sold? Ah, a different matter entirely… 


2 Comments
Jane
2/7/2015 02:35:28 pm

Hey don't be so hard on yourself! Books 1 (and 2 ) is/are good -people just might not have found book 1 yet.

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Big Yin
27/7/2015 05:01:05 pm

I like the idea of the 'paid work'. That counts as copies sold in its own way, too. Great to hear there's a 'book number 3' as well!

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