Day 24: Done!

Daily goal: 4,140 words/day.

Today: FINISHED (6,846 words today)

385 Pages in the Draft

Draft 2 Goal: Increase Conflict and Suspense

I've edited the entire draft! Woohoo! Seven days early too!

I bought myself fancy apples from my apple dealer to celebrate. (Yes I have an apple dealer. Today's apples were a cultivar from 1600s France. I am living my best life.)

I improved the book ~9% with these edits

This is based on me asking Claude a zillion different ways to rank both drafts, and on average it ranked my current draft about 9% better than the one before it.

I would give you a prompt to use for your own book, but Claude gave biased rankings to all of my prompts, and so I would not recommend any specific prompt of mine for an honest ranking from Claude.

I think Claude wants to be too nice. I got my best results from asking it to be especially critical.

Next Steps: doing another full-book edit focusing solely on external conflict. This edit sprint heightened the internal conflict a ton, but I didn't do as good a job on the external conflict of the book. I actually might attempt to do this through doing a 'World Building' draft next (as I think that'll add a lot to the external conflict but idk). We'll see!

What I know for sure: I'm gonna take a few days off and eat my creepy french apples and go hiking.