Writing and editing is like night and day

When writ­ing sto­ries (right now I am work­ing on Auda) I find I write best in the evening and at night, but pre­fer edit­ing and revis­ing in the morn­ing (like I’m doing now). I think being a bit tired in the evening/night makes for more cre­ative solu­tions in sto­ry­telling, while being rest­ed helps find incon­si­ten­cies in the time line and keep the Latin at the appro­pri­ate lev­el.

Right now, I am work­ing on Auda chap­ter 7 “Redawul­fus”. I’ve fin­ished the sto­ry of the chap­ter but now I am work­ing on reduc­ing the num­ber of new vocab­u­lary I intro­duce in it. I want to make the pro­gres­sion from chap­ter to chap­ter feel even and gen­tle so my aim is to intro­duce no more than 20–25 new words (and of these sev­er­al should be fair­ly trans­par­ent, e.g. if I have “accedere”, in one chap­ter, adding “recedere” will be far­i­ly easy to get.’

Any­way, in this chap­ter I’m down to 35 new words so 10–15 have to go :).