PoB - The she-wolf
Manuscript assessment: 18 pages out of 243.
I’ve set up a progress bar thingie for the revision too, keeping in mind that the way I’ve formatted the first draft manuscript, a total of around 72K words and 243 pages roughly corresponds to 296 words per page. So now I’m at around 5.3K words out of 72K, having assessed 888 more words from the previous session.
I’m currently assessing the second scene, the flashback with the confrontation between Erthel, her mother and Mr. Bad Guy at the old well. The scene is creepy exactly as it should be and Erthel’s mother is an amazing she-wolf (figuratively speaking): courageous and ready to protect her daughter, but at the same time showing the pain and the old wounds of someone who has been hurt and betrayed by a trusted one. Erthel, on the other hand, is rather passive in this stage and fails to notice the obvious about Mr. Bad Guy. This will call for some work when I’ll get to the troubleshooting phase, but for now, it’s all about evaluating what I’ve actually got with the first draft.
