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Rabid: Edit Log 2

Progress: Page 30/149

This is...this is going to be a two day job, isn’t it? Oh well! The story is really kicking off now, but I have to say, the characterisation for my girls Heather and Casey was just weird in the beginning. Casey was being reckless, Heather was on some weird moral high horse, and it was all...off. So there’s one thing to fix in the next version. Anyway, I’m taking a lunch break.

Edit Notes Highlights

-Proceed with scene as planned, including the barbeque

-STOP CALLING PEOPLE SWEETHEART

-’Get up’? SHE’S TIED TO A TREE

-Rabids are not dinosaurs. They can still see you when you’re not moving

-Wait, didn’t you get shot earlier?

-You two would die immediately in a horror movie. WHY ARE YOU SPLITTING UP?

-Who the hell is James?

-I don’t know who you are James, but you’re a real creep

-Wait. Is James just Tom with a different name?

-Oh damn it he is

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Rabid: Edit Log 1

Progress: Page 13/149

We’re 13 pages in and already I’ve shifted two scenes around. (Technically I should’ve done this three months ago because I knew full well then that I needed to, but if I’m not a professional procrastinator then I don’t know who is)

Edit Notes Highlights

-Rocks???

-THERE IS NOTHING SOUTH

-Get Ruby the HECK out of this scene

-Casey you are not that brave

-Well are baked beans a brand name?

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Rabid: Edit Log 3

Progress: Page 46/149

Alright, this is definitely a two (or three!) day job, but that’s my bad for getting distracted. And progress was slow for a while there while I worked through one of the most difficult parts of the book: the military base scenes. I must’ve already rewritten this whole part about five times, but I think I’ve finally nailed it down. Anyway, this is all I’ve got in me for tonight.

Edit Notes Highlights

- Don’t be a dick, Heather

- What is this internal exposition monologue?

- You go to uni there, you can damn well describe it better than that

- This is not Sharing Time (TM), come back later

- Why is the TV smashed? :(

- Ah, another character I thought I cut

- Yes for being assertive with pronouns

- This woman was a dude two sentences ago

- Is it still ‘bedside manner’ if she’s dead?

- I’m sorry, is Zara psychic??? I think not

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