#adding three sentences to a fic a week counts as progress 😂

[sadisticyouko]

my yusuke fic is gonna be annoying cuz I do pov swaps 🫠

[uncleasad]

Good progress on the editing today…I completed my read-through of the entire fic 🎉 Only one or two more egregious typos 😂 Mostly tightening some language or clarifying bits, adding a few descriptors, and even unwinding a few of my worst meandering, complex-thought sentences. It’s great coming at things again with fresh eyes after a break of a few days. Nothing seemed really awkward or confusing, and tightening things here and there helped places that could be a tiny bit confusing (again, hooray for fresh eyes).

A couple of small, fun additions, too…brief lines/thoughts for Lizzie and Josie that add some depth, and a really nice callback for Penelope that just popped into my head 😀 (and almost no scene surgery needed!).

I’m pretty sure I know where I’m going to break the first chapter, after about 2K words. After that, though…ugh. There’s a good break after 8K more words, but I really want to split that in half-ish, so I’m going to have to reread that or something…and then another 5K words into the end, which I’m OK with if I can’t find a good place to break that chunk further. Need more fresh eyes. (Ideally, at 15K total words, I’d break into three roughly-5K chapters, but that’s not where things fell logically.)

This is my first time editing something this long all at once, which…was a not-fun taste of what’s to come on my long, long WIPs. Definitely easier to go chapter-by-chapter on something this long. On the other hand, 1) I had no idea where chapter breaks might be when I was writing, 2) I definitely improved things, including a host of spots in the early ~⅓ of the fic, while writing the latter ⅔ of it, and 3) I had no idea it would ever be this long! 😳 I was expecting a 4, 5, maybe 6K-word fic 😂 (It’s a different manifestation of the phenomenon that any time I start writing and publishing a fic with what I think is a fixed chapter count, it will spawn at least one new chapter before I’m finished writing 😂)

At any rate, that’s where things are tonight. I should be able to post the first chapter tomorrow 🤞 and figure out the other breaks sometime next week, knock on wood.