slr2moons | It's all coming together...

Since I was only six pages away from finally finishing Clay v9 after I met today's quota, I decided to keep working. ~~Not to mention I was two pages short yesterday, for reasons I'll explain in a bit.~~ I blew through two extra pages, then opened the next one and found a lovely surprise. I had originally labeled page 166 as yellow, which is downright easy for Claymore. You see, this page is yet another one of the perpetual radial lines/tones action scenes, which I have babbled about before. 19 out of 20 of these pages are not too bad to patch. Tedious yes, but now that I have a system down, I can handle it without too much effort. Alas, page 166 is that 20th page which proves to be a challenge. Three hours later, I've upgraded it to a definite orange. I'm not finished with it yet, either. I'll complete it tomorrow (or later today, rather), when I decide if this page needs upgrading again to Pink status. X_x Way to leave a nice surprise for yourself, s2m!!! *laughs*

Anyway, I've been polishing the fanfic tonight, while working. I guess my initial writing on the 2nd half was satisfactory, as I barely changed anything. If you recall, I have been worried about the eventual length of part three, based on how much I added to the beginning of the same. But nope, apparently I did a fine job on the initial run. Heh. Yay me. ^^V

I suppose the reason I elaborated so much in the beginning was because I was trying to express several difficult concepts. And I wanted to show them to the reader as they occurred to the main character, rather than baldly state them with one sentence. So the wordiness is for that reason, ~~I'm sure Star-chan will keep me from overdoing it when she kindly betas for me~~ and the fact that I've realized I use the passive voice way too much. So part of my extensive rewriting of the beginning was removing all those pesky "was"s. It doesn't help that the beginning is almost all observations by the main character, which lend themselves rather well to "was". ><

But it does appear that I will finish Clay v9 tomorrow. *has huge smile* When it's done, I can get rolling on the first actual volume I'm doing of Temp!! And it appears that my fanfic will be ready for beta-ing in a few days, as well!!! It's all coming together!! Banzai!!

And here's the manga report:

Clay 9.149-151, 155-157, 159, 165, 175
New 1.114, 122, 125-130
Skip 9.84, 85, 94-97
Temp fanbook.249 and 250
6 Green, 12 Yellow, 7 Orange, 1 Pink/PfH. Total pages: 26.

And the reason I was two pages short on Clay yesteday (I did make up for it today, though!) was because the English refuses to die. >< Yesterday I had to spend several hours doing a 2nd--yes 2nd!--set of EXTRA fixes for Senior Editor Who Loves Me. Just when I think I'm free, it comes back to life like a B-grade action movie villain. >< Please, manga no kami-sama...let this be the end!!!

Oh, I finally upgraded my lj account. ^^ Now I can finish some new icons ~~when I have time~~ and upload them. Oh, and I chose these cute little fox mood icons to use. Heeheehee! I like my new journal colors, too....