Riding the Vaucoos-novel progress

[marshall_payne]

I've had a great week of progress on the fantasy novel I'm rewriting. Over 15k so far this week. I'm past the halfway mark and am at 58,000 words total. Mostly I'm giving the story "wings" by getting rid of a few lead shoes of unneeded exposition. And cutting some extraneous dialogue that doesn't need to be there.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter

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[justin_pilon]

Cool!

And cutting some extraneous dialogue that doesn't need to be there.

This so applies to my novel, too! I bet I could lose 10,000 words in dialogue alone.

[marshall_payne]

Thanks. The problem arises in that you don't cut with a fresh set of eyes. Meaning, you ask yourself, If I cut this is it something the reader really needs to know? In a short story this is easier to answer due to the brevity of the piece. In a sprawling novel it's a bit more problematic, if you know what I mean.