...At least, done with the first stage of revisions: reading through the physical manuscript and marking changes.
I finished while we were staying in at the Strater in Durango, doing a marathon of 43 pages (and finishing the novel) the first full day we were there. The next day I started work on making the revisions in the electronic file, but that is going to take much longer than I anticipated. I always thought that making the revisions would take much less time than marking them, and for the grammatical revisions that is true, but I also marked where further research or massive rewriting was needed, and that is what will take a while.
To make a long story short, I don't know if I'll actually be able to finish completely by the end of July, after all. We will see...
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