[12:31 AM] Fuzzy: Got a little more done tonight on C10. Maybe up to about 70%+. DOn't normally get any done on Wednesdays due to other commitments, so its something. Hopefully will have it done in a couple days.
[12:31 AM] Fuzzy: But at most, this seems slowed to about 2 chapters per week right now.
[12:32 AM] Fuzzy: Perhaps more like 1.5.
[12:32 AM] Centaur: I've been accepting what edits I can.
[12:32 AM] Centaur: Working on 11 now.
[12:32 AM] Fuzzy: At the very least, once 1, 11 and 12 are done, thats Act 1 complete.
[12:35 AM] zemming: So, at 1.5 chapter per week, we might be ready to print in July.
[12:36 AM] Fuzzy: Dependant on variance, but it is always better to use the worst possible case, yes.
[12:37 AM] Fuzzy: As we've chatted about, a lot of this comes from me not being able to just go with the suggestions alone, due to many of the chapters not having had completed editing, leaving inconsistencies between edited areas and not. Obviously a lot slower than we'd hoped, but thats what such a thing from partial edits create.
[12:38 AM] zemming: July is a bit beyond my considerations for the worst possible case.
[12:38 AM] Centaur: I've gone through all of the chapters and finished up their edits.
[12:38 AM] zemming: I understand the difficulties of working around suggestions that only cover half of a chapter. But I'm still very concerned that the scope of the work you're doing for a swan song project is far beyond the initial scope of what we were striving for
[12:39 AM] Fuzzy: If I may be honest, that lies with the editors, not me.
[12:39 AM] Fuzzy: The amount of suggestions made is far beyond anything I think any of us expected.
[12:40 AM] zemming: And that's okay. But we usually strive for more edits than necessary, then cull them down
[12:40 AM] zemming: Instead it seems the focus is still much more in depth than we started out striving for
[12:40 AM] Fuzzy: I am doing very minimal edits of my own at this point, and are working almost purely on their suggestions. However keeping an eye for consistency issues due to edits being completed in varied passes has become very important.
[12:42 AM] Fuzzy: Culling them or not, we still need to at least read each suggestion to know if it needs approving or not. That in itself is a massive process.
[12:42 AM] Fuzzy: To give a sense of the scale, I did some math on the wordcounts last night out of curiosity.
[12:43 AM] Fuzzy: Since the beginning of December, Centaur and myself have effectively been editing 3 novels per month.
[12:43 AM] Centaur: I do think that the sheer amount of consideration you're applying to each suggestion is overdoing it, though.
[12:44 AM] Fuzzy: I cannot "blind approve" on these.
[12:44 AM] Centaur: Of course we must be mindful and vigilant, but there are more effective ways of doing so than simply brute forcing our way through the story page by page.
[12:44 AM] Centaur: No no no.
[12:45 AM] Centaur: Perhaps I've been misunderstood. There is a big difference between blind approvals and efficient ones.
[12:46 AM] Fuzzy: There are three outcomes from each edit. It is accepted as is, it is denied to the original, or it is changed but edited.

Each of those requires looking at what the edit actually does. That is already the most efficient way. One way or another, these approvals need to actually be checked.
[12:47 AM] Centaur: But even still, analyzing a sentence and comparing its syntax should be fairly simple. It begs a checklist of these:
[12:48 AM] Centaur: [] continuity [] consistency [] grammar [] readability
[12:48 AM] Centaur: Those four are not difficult to run through swiftly and carefully.