Last night I was up until 2:30, mostly editing pieces in and out of the previous 20 pages of this story, and then formatting the most recent 5. It was tedious and horrible because it’s hard enough to edit details into your unfinished pages of an unfinished story, without you slow computer that takes minutes to open a file. The scanner takes more minutes to start up, and then I use it for 1 minute to scan a 10-square-centimeter chunk of dialogue.
However, at the end of the night, I saved the pages into spreads so I could “really” see how they look, and it feels good. Quite rewarding! Unfinished but not abysmal. Today I’m penciling and inking 4 more pages. There’s no class, so I’m spending all day in the tatami-mat room and getting stuff done..
The deadline looms, over and out.