. . . and another thing I found out about my book

[ritaxis]

In order to find page 77, I had to make a master diocument, right?  so now I know the total wordage of the book, and I'm really discouraged.  It's at 93K and I wanted it to be between 90-120K total and I haven't even gotten to the "midpoint" which I believe ought to be physically at least before two-thirds of the book.  I am almost there, but even so, that would mean the book will have to be at least 150K which is longer than I want.  I wanted a short book!

And my efforts at cutting the early parts were fruitless before.

On the other hand, I do now have a master document, which means when I am procrastinating I can check for consistency in spelling of names, and so on.

Comments

[pameladean]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who procrastinates about making the master document.

And I certainly sympathize with the desire for a short book and the difficulty of writing one.

P.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

How do you do that consistency check?

What I've done is conceptually similar to: Convert to a text document, change all spaces into carriage returns (to put each word on its own line), sort each line and remove duplicates. Then I manually scan that list to look for oopsies.