Grabbing the stack

It's time to take that stack of printed sheets and read.

Painful, and in places surprisingly good. That's what I expect from reading through my entire first draft.
There are notes on it already. I'll read those and jot down my own as well. After that? Another week in the virtual drawer and then the time has come for rewriting.

Of the 100 000 words currently written I'll be happy if 80 000 survives. I doubt it. Descriptive padding and I should have a finished result of around 120 000 words.

I know. Less is more and all that, but to say that my descriptions are lackluster is to give them credit. Another kind way of putting it would be to say that I write a terse prose, so descriptive padding it is.