Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tracking Edits

I found the great word meters on my  sidebar at Svenja Liv's site a while ago.  Sorry, I don't remember who's blog I saw them on first.

Now that I have achieved an acceptable word count for three novels, I need to track my edits.  I've seen some people track edits by word count, but I think that's overkill for me.  I'm going to take it one chapter at a time and only add myself a little sliver of color on the widget if I think the chapter is completely done.  It's like a tiny little reward for a lot of work.

I used Svenja's word count widget and modified it very slightly to add labels and a line break between the two widgets for each book.

If you're wondering why I'm doing this and not writing or editing, I think I'm having a compulsion to nest the way women do just before the baby's born.  Hopefully I'll be having triplets soon (books, not babies).


Do you track edits? 

17 comments:

  1. Never thought about tracking edits before!

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  2. My deadlines are usually hanging over my head, so I don't have a chance to think about it. I think its a cool idea, though.

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  3. No, I don't track edits that way. I do a certain number of passes with each stage identifying certain problems to correct.

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  4. I don't officially track edits. I just finished a final round before handing a book off to the professionals.

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  5. That sounds like a lot of extra work to me, but it is a good way of knowing where you are with your progress

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  6. My editing and revising is too recursive to track like that. Like Brinda above, I make multiple passes through each chapter and the manuscript as a whole *in each draft.*

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  7. I don't track edits either. I'm not that organized.

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  8. I used to track edits. And then it got so ridiculous I finally stopped tracking. LOL.

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  9. That's really interesting. I'm glad I asked. I apparently have a need to have a little bar graph to update every week or two. :)

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  10. Good luck with your "triplets!" Julie

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  11. Gosh if I tracked my edits, the widget would explode LOL. Good idea though and good luck with your three - you're really doing well.

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  12. I like your meters as well as your idea to go chapter-by-chapter. That's how I do it, averaging a chapter a day during the summer, and it's worked well.

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  13. No, I don't track edits. Good luck tracking yours, though.

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  14. Triplets, books not babies. Funny.

    I'm so relieved to hear that more people than just me have that left/right thing going on or maybe I should say not going on.

    I really need to get back here more often.

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  15. My real baby was puking all morning or I would have done a better job responding. Thanks for all your great comments.

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  16. That is a very good system of tracking--wish I was this organized! As it stands my edited chapters exist in a file structure similar to this: /misc/new folder/new folder/misc/new folder (2)/new folder. Thanks for sharing!

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