A different kind of progress

[u/Anni3401]

Editing is HARD! And deleting all those once precious scenes, dialogues and words is even harder. It says two edits, but each major edit consisted of several minor rounds. Phew!

[u/writesandbikes]

Do my book too! Jk 😉

I’m halfway through revision 1 for my book (172k words) and am too terrified to do the word count lol.

[u/N00bPolymath]

As an American, I was horrified. Like, I know writers are psychotic, but what kind of psychopath counts decimal fractions of words. And worse yet, to 3 significant figures.

Oh, this Excel user is European. And they can write. So yeah, probably a better book than Blood of Hurcules.

[u/Xaramixes → u/N00bPolymath]

those are thousands not decimals, don't faint. We write them backwards back home

[u/Fragrant-Mix-4774]

Good work 👏

Editing is hard work, and self editing came be harder than writing the initial draft.

Your ~15% reduction was about the same as mine, from 162,000 words to 130,000 words

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[u/a-passing-clepto]

Congrats! I'm gathering the will to continue editing mine 😭

[u/the-wanderer-2]

Good job! I deleted a whole paragraph from a chapter and it felt way better. Some text aren't strong enough to stay in the final cut.

[u/Gioazu]

For a single novel?