Am on page 297 of edits. Either this is less Frankensteiny than I thought, or I’m too close to see the problems. A few places to develop things have struck me, and I’ve been making notes about consistency, but so far it seems to be holding together remarkably well. Still waiting for the proverbial Other Shoe to drop.

Lucy is an insanely demanding lap kitty this morning. Which is a bother if you’re trying to do, you know. Anything. But it’s very cute. :) Am on page 175 or so of HoS edits. Nothing egregious so far. Some gregious stuff, but nothing egregious. Am starting to hold out faint hope for the book. And now back to the grindstone (going to work late today, get to edit til 11am).

It stopped raining long enough for Chanti and me to walk 3 miles, so that’s something, anyway. And my work needs somebody around late tomorrow, so I’m not going to work til 11, which should mean a few hours of quality editing time tomorrow morning. That’ll be good! Ummm. *looks around* Guess that’s about it, then. miles to Lothlorien: 267

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Edited a hundred pages of HoS last night, but I haven’t gotten to the icky stuff yet. A lot of the early stuff is more or less unchanged (er, except the whole new plotline in there), so it’s pretty solid. I think it’s around chapter 10 or 12 that it starts becoming unbelievably awful. :) Had a bit of a panic this morning because I couldn’t find the ink that goes with the Amazing Glass Pen that Sarah sent me. That pen, because it is very, very important to me,…

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