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through draft done
« on: December 24, 2009, 08:19:57 PM »
..on my biggest WiP. 491,000 words, thirteen years working on it off and on, and yesterday i finished the epilogyue. it needs a mass of consistency checks and the like, but still, worth noting.

I have a number of other things to do (one needing a through pass and resubmission, one needing some People Stuff done to confirm it's OK to submit it where i want to, and one needing a quick last check before I send it to a congenial expert on the historical period in question who has offered to give me a read-through) before I come back to this; I hope that clears my head enough.
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2009, 11:12:43 PM »
Congrats!
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2009, 02:04:42 AM »

catharsis much?

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Re: through draft done
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2009, 06:52:06 PM »
catharsis much?

More sort of feeling very weird to have something so omnipresent gone.
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2009, 08:11:07 PM »
Congrats! That's quite an accomplishment. You should definitely be proud. So you're gonna let it sit for awhile to clear your head? (Sounds like a really good idea.) Any ideas of what you're going to work on in the meantime?
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2009, 03:08:25 PM »
Congrats on the milestone!  (Or should that be millstone? ;))
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Re: through draft done
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2009, 02:18:43 AM »
way to go.  Job well done as you stare at it in wonder.  *applause and whistling*
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2009, 03:42:57 AM »
way to go.  Job well done as you stare at it in wonder.  *applause and whistling*

Mostly 'wonder" of the "now that I know how it ends, I wonder how I tighten it so that all of that ending works" variety..
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2009, 05:34:50 AM »
Congrats!

Hopefully the psychic weight of getting it to this state is off and producing much 'success' endorphins.
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Re: through draft done
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2009, 01:38:31 PM »
I get the sense of

"time to get off my back end and do some -focused-, intense, work on it instead of plodding along as I have been",

from neuro, but that may be just me.

13 years, huh?   Weel, that gives me some hope that we will finish that upstairs bathroom some day.    ;)

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Re: through draft done
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2009, 07:46:34 PM »
Congratulations!