Those 800 words aren't a good indicator of the work you've done. I stopped doing a word count during revision. Sometimes, I'll work for hours on revisions with no measureable change in word count, but I've bloody well done a hell of a lot of good for the manuscript.
If something's not working for you, change the POV, change the setting, change something. You don't necessarily have to KEEP that change, but looking at it a different way often helps in seeing what went wrong. It's like when you're looking at a painting and then someone flicks on another light, and all of a sudden, there are carnivorous zombie-birds in the trees over that lovers' picnic that you hadn't seen before. Shazam! A little change and it's a whole new picture.
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Date: 2010-10-27 02:04 pm (UTC)If something's not working for you, change the POV, change the setting, change something. You don't necessarily have to KEEP that change, but looking at it a different way often helps in seeing what went wrong. It's like when you're looking at a painting and then someone flicks on another light, and all of a sudden, there are carnivorous zombie-birds in the trees over that lovers' picnic that you hadn't seen before. Shazam! A little change and it's a whole new picture.