Well, that took longer than I'd hoped

But I also looked over the second line-edit pass that came back to me as I was trying to stop myself from rewriting every sentence I could see in the West novel. 

This is part of the reason I can't write new words while revising old words - I can't get down beneath the surface of the words to the book; I'm too busy looking for bad words, and if I can't find them, I doubt the words on the page and I start to choose different--but not necessarily better--words to replace them.

So I had finally shed that, and 2nd pass revisions returned. Those are gone and the book has been sent to copyediting. And then it will come back again, with copyediting changes, and I'll review those as well, and then, in theory, just proofreading and done.

But in the meantime, actual real words get written.

So: my life has been revision, revision stress, bookstore, and writing. 

In my downtime, I have been playing one video game--the one I started in July of 2021. I think we're almost finished the last of the main story, so I have not exactly been playing quickly, given it's almost a year since I started. If this game were a book, I would have "just one more chapter"ed myself to sleeplessness to get to the end. 

But it's structured as a quintology; there are spaces between books where one can ruminate and consider. People who played the game when it was current didn't have the choice. I'm still thinking about the previous expansion from a structural angle.

Structure thoughts for me are a happy mental space.

I hope everyone has been well.

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