experimenting

I am still working on going back and fixing the elements of the story line thus far that are out of whack. It is harder to figure out how to measure progress when I am doing that than it is to measure progress on a rough draft - just looking at word count. Setting specific goals is helpful for me - both to maintain productivity and to prove to myself that I am making some progress. I guess I get to claim to be very goal-oriented. The best method I have figured out so far to measure progress as I work on revising is using a timer - working in fifteen minute spurts and seeing how many of those I can accomplish in a day. Doing too much more than fifteen minutes tends to cause me to get lost in what I am doing and feel overwhelmed, but spacing them out a little bit helps, and also gives my subconscious a chance to mull things over and come up with different ways to approach things. I am thinking a lot about methods for revising because I know it will be something I'll use a lot as I go along both in this novel and other ones I write later.