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Katsunami · 03-10-2014, 02:54 PM

Instead of first fixing the overuse of sighing and crying and then do another editing pass, I'm just doing a full edit on version 0.8 now. There might not be a version 0.9.

Don't waste your time on version 0.1-0.8. I've been replacing entire parts of phrases with a single word, such as: "She hesitated for just a short while" -> "She hesitated momentarily." ("Momentarily" = "for just a short while", according to Google.)

This technique alone dropped the word count some 50 words, and I've just edited 300

If this is an indication for the rest of the piece, I might drop 1,000-1,200 words without changing the meaning of a single sentence

Ah, well. I will have some room to make up more story

Nah; I might drop some words this way, but there -is- some other stuff that needs a bit of clarification...

03-10-2014, 02:54 PM	#59
Katsunami Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,111 Karma: 34000001 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: KPW1, KA1	Instead of first fixing the overuse of sighing and crying and then do another editing pass, I'm just doing a full edit on version 0.8 now. There might not be a version 0.9. Don't waste your time on version 0.1-0.8. I've been replacing entire parts of phrases with a single word, such as: "She hesitated for just a short while" -> "She hesitated momentarily." ("Momentarily" = "for just a short while", according to Google.) This technique alone dropped the word count some 50 words, and I've just edited 300 If this is an indication for the rest of the piece, I might drop 1,000-1,200 words without changing the meaning of a single sentence Ah, well. I will have some room to make up more story Nah; I might drop some words this way, but there -is- some other stuff that needs a bit of clarification... Last edited by Katsunami; 03-10-2014 at 02:56 PM.