In the week since the initial review of The Grand Project was completed, I finished reading The Martian and caught up on some television. In other words, I have spare cycles until the review process begins anew.
My review began on 16 August 15 and was finished 14 January 16. This process took six months to accomplish and 4039 corrections were logged. This means there were 1132 additional corrections made after the 71% mark was noted in Slow and Steady on 17 November 15.
At that time, there were 41 modifications done for each percent of the manuscript reviewed. The last 29% saw that number drop to 39 corrections while the global average settled in at 40 corrections. Overall, the number remained consistent and that is not a bad thing.
If my progress on The Grand Project follows a similar path to the The Portrait then I expect numbers to drop for the next revision. My final review of The Portrait yielded less than 50 changes for the entire manuscript.
During my next review process, I will keep statistics for every chapter. That should yield some very interesting results! For now, there are a few more readings on my to-do list to accomplish before I start again!
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