revision pass

[julesjones]

Started the first revision pass on Ship to Shore, in part with the intention of adding more wordage if I could do so without actual padding, as it's a bit shorter than I'd really like. I was hopeful of getting several hundred more words in without falling foul of obvious padding because it did actually need more detail in places. I know there's a long chunk near the end that's mostly dialogue, and could do with a bit more sense of where the characters are. In fact, I've achieved an increase of 700 words just from the "filling in detail", and I'm only a third of the way through the manuscript. I may well manage to take it over my target of at least 15,000 words total just by adding a little more depth to what's already there. I also now have names for several minor characters previously called things like [x]. :-)