Monday, January 19, 2015

Day 1115: Timing Paddy

Paddy is in and out so often during the day that I have to set the timer to remind me to call him in.  Sometimes, it's five minutes, but when it's in the thirties, he can have more time.   But, twice today I forgot him.  He just sits on the picnic table and surveys his territory.  He's fuzzy enough that he's safe.

I spent nearly all day tightening the language of the two day hike chapter and then printed it.  It was more time than I planned, but I like the changes.  The "the" count started at 610 and I reduced it to 560!  It may seem trivial, but it forces me to cut extraneous prepositional phrases and other useless words.   Then, I started the four day hike chapter.  It requires a lot of editing and will probably take a full week.  The last time it was edited was in January 2013.





No comments:

Post a Comment