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METRICS
Lost Words: 42
Total words for the first draft: 4988
What I hate about my writing: DEADLINE PANIC!
The Good: Started replacing my descriptive place holders with the alien words I have invented. So I have lost words instead of gained. Also, in the interests of not losing anything on this world and culture, I made two new sheets for Holly Lisle’s Create a Language Clinic: Character Names and Glossary. Sure, I could have wrote out all the information on loose-leaf and put it in the same binder along with the other completed worksheets but this way is a whole lot less messy.
The Bad: The language is coming along fine, but I haven’t even started on the planet landscape. *headdesk* I have figured out the cataclysm that nearly wiped out the Erochians (or Atseggairaas in their native tongue); it was an eruption of a super volcano; massive devastation, loss of life, and shake up of culture of which this story is only seeing a fraction of. I’m planning on exploring it more later on in the Zy’s universe series.
But it means an edit of what little outdoor description I put into the last scene taking in the linger effects of an eruption that big and just how did moderately space-faring species survive. Ha! Never thought I’d be glad for skimping on description before.
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What I'm looking forward to: Plugging the alien words into the text.
What I'm not looking forward to: Figuring out the planet.
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