To the dead it don't matter much 'bout whose wrong or right.

Editing is going... weird. I feel like I'm hacking and slashing chunks out. I went over the chapters I'd already hacked pieces out of once and each one lost yet more words, which i hadn't thought I'd be able to manage. Granted, very few in some places, but a couple of chunks much bigger than I'd anticipated. And I've gone through a lot of the not-previously edited bits, and they lost much higher word counts, and more large segments.

However, I'm still at 135k. And I have only 30K left to edit.

That is to say, I'd have to trim HALF of what's coming up to make my goal. The next scenes are probably the most rough-written, and therefore not only will likely lose the most words, but will also require other kinds of polishing. (If the chapter I just finished is anything to go by.) Regardless.

This book is not going to be 120k.

*I'm* okay with it being 130k. But it sounds so much like agents aren't, overall.

To which: FUCK.

I suppose I could send out a call for critique with an eye to cutting words in particular. (it rarely hurts to have a beta of some kind). But, for various reasons, I've been feeling leery about tacking on yet another half year at least of waiting on responses and yet another run of editing of who-knows-how-long; this time, it feels like the fruits resulting of such a delay would not be different enough from the fruit already borne to affect how any agent would react to this project.

Time is what I haven't got, or at least that's how it feels.

Tell me if I'm being an idiot.

To the dead it don't matter much 'bout whose wrong or right.

Editing is going... weird. I feel like I'm hacking and slashing chunks out. I went over the chapters I'd already hacked pieces out of once and each one lost yet more words, which i hadn't thought I'd be able to manage. Granted, very few in some places, but a couple of chunks much bigger than I'd anticipated. And I've gone through a lot of the not-previously edited bits, and they lost much higher word counts, and more large segments.

However, I'm still at 135k. And I have only 30K left to edit.

That is to say, I'd have to trim HALF of what's coming up to make my goal. The next scenes are probably the most rough-written, and therefore not only will likely lose the most words, but will also require other kinds of polishing. (If the chapter I just finished is anything to go by.) Regardless.

This book is not going to be 120k.

*I'm* okay with it being 130k. But it sounds so much like agents aren't, overall.

To which: FUCK.

I suppose I could send out a call for critique with an eye to cutting words in particular. (it rarely hurts to have a beta of some kind). But, for various reasons, I've been feeling leery about tacking on yet another half year at least of waiting on responses and yet another run of editing of who-knows-how-long; this time, it feels like the fruits resulting of such a delay would not be different enough from the fruit already borne to affect how any agent would react to this project.

Time is what I haven't got, or at least that's how it feels.

Tell me if I'm being an idiot.