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?
Never thought about tracking edits before!
ReplyDeleteMy 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.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't track edits that way. I do a certain number of passes with each stage identifying certain problems to correct.
ReplyDeleteI don't officially track edits. I just finished a final round before handing a book off to the professionals.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a lot of extra work to me, but it is a good way of knowing where you are with your progress
ReplyDeleteMy 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.*
ReplyDeleteI don't track edits either. I'm not that organized.
ReplyDeleteI used to track edits. And then it got so ridiculous I finally stopped tracking. LOL.
ReplyDeleteThat'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. :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your "triplets!" Julie
ReplyDeleteGosh if I tracked my edits, the widget would explode LOL. Good idea though and good luck with your three - you're really doing well.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteNope. I just do it by chapter and very slow.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't track edits. Good luck tracking yours, though.
ReplyDeleteTriplets, books not babies. Funny.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
My real baby was puking all morning or I would have done a better job responding. Thanks for all your great comments.
ReplyDeleteThat 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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