We Read A Thorough Read-Through

The Story of the Ghosts So Far has been read through. It was interesting to see where we would catch up to it, because the read-through was happening a little at a time (Kent used it as the material for his reading aloud while Jen cooked) and meanwhile we were still adding to it in the evenings.

In other words, we treated it the same way we treat most other books. (Except for the part about adding on to them in the evenings — we don’t do that with anybody else’s books.) Getting a chance to experience it at a full gallop, as it were, did feel quite different. We both expressed surprise at how much happens in this early section. There is one particular event we have a lot invested in that hasn’t happened yet, and we’d started to feel like we were taking too long in reaching it. And there will undoubtedly be some pacing adjustments. But our idea that it was “taking too long” was just because we had been overemphasizing that one thing.

The notes that we made were mostly quite minor. The really picky stuff we went ahead and cleaned up, which took maybe ten minutes. But for anything more complicated than typos we are saving the actual fixes until later. Need to keep moving forward.

A writing partner is someone who also likes being a reading partner.