Book Report

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“Books? I like books!”

Here’s the next occasional book progress update:

Introduction
Current Revision: 1
Total Words: 422 (dialogue only)

Chapter 1: Particle-Wave Duality
Current Revision: 5a
Total Words: 5,279

Chapter 2: The Uncertainty Principle
Current Revision: 7
Total Words: 4,499

Chapter 3: The Copenhagen Interpretation
Current Revision: 2
Total Words: 4,801

The Introduction dialogue isn’t exactly new– I wrote it a while back– but it was part of the stuff that I sent to my agent to get feedback on, so I’ll throw it in here.

Chapter 2 has been rather comprehensively revised, and the last couple of sections were completely re-written. Chapter 3 is new, and this revision was actually pretty good– Kate had only relatively minor edits, and didn’t point out any major structural problems. I need to go over it quickly, but I think I’ll be pushing on to Chapter 4: The Many-Worlds Interpretation next.

Length may be an issue, as this is already 15,000 words (give or take). There are probably a couple hundred superfluous “really”s in there, though, and another hundred or so “also”s that could be dropped. I’m just not dealing with that at this point, though.

I may be in the market for some technical proofreading in the near future, to check whether I’m saying anything really idiotic by accident. More on that later.

Bonus Out-of-Context Dog Dialogue: “Now, you can argue about who counts as an observer–“

“Not a cat, that’s for sure. Cats are dumb.”