Rail trip: going in circles?

The other end of the steam train trip is Castlemaine.


I'm going to cheat here, and use some paragraphs from eGold, the Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia.

The Mount Alexander diggings were located in the central goldfields region of Victoria, in and around the present day city of Castlemaine. The site of one of the earliest significant alluvial gold rushes that occurred in Australia during the mid-nineteenth century, they have been called the world’s greatest shallow alluvial goldfield.

Following the gold discoveries of 1851, Castlemaine’s population grew rapidly and it became a town on 1 November 1853. It is the key settlement of the Mount Alexander diggings and, at its peak, had approximately 35,000 inhabitants. Along with the other major goldfields cities of Ballarat and Bendigo, Castlemaine briefly rivalled Melbourne as Victoria’s principal population centre. From

( More. Really. Yeah, surprised me too. )

Bah

I am so tired of this story. I do not want to work on it anymore. It's boring and slow and tedious. Hmmm, most be the 1/3 mark. 30% actually, based on word count. The scene count below is lower because there were some long scenes in the bits just done inc. a 3000 word info dump. Woohoo!

I don't feel like I'm making progress though, and it's nothing to do with % or plots. I'm just making a small number minor/sentence level edits as I go. Effectively copying & pasting what I had to another document. OK so it mightn't need much work. Yet when I finished the second draft, I felt I had a big, unwieldy mass of words that needed majoring beating into shape. *sigh* One of me is/was wrong.

It might be because there's not much wrong with the opening chapters. (Hahaha)

It might be because I'm focusing on the structural stuff as I work, and that hasn't collapsed ye isn't too bad at this stage. Whereas I should be looking at the emotional/sensory stuff as well. That's the real point of this rewrite.

But really, who knows?

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