Early morning sprint and review guilt

Mosquitoes woke me up at 4:30 AM. Had cornflakes, green tea with honey, lemon and ginger (going whole hog there), watched the last hour of October Sky(one of my favorite movies) and sat down to write at 5:30. Had a bit of an upset tummy, so between trips to the bathroom, wrote about 2000 words in two and an half hours. Now, no matter how many things go wrong at the office, which they tend to, more often than not nowadays, it cant really be a bad day. I have already achieved the double of my daily quota of writing. So it's already a day well spent!

I am giving the first drafts of my completed chapters for review to a couple of friends and relatives. Yesterday, one of my friends spent three hours (at least) reviewing one of the chapters. She did a very thorough job, pointing out most mistakes. But now I am not sure whether sending out first drafts is such a bright idea. I feel that if I would have gone through the chapters, I could have reduced the mistakes by fifty percent. It's not to say that I would have figured out everything, as she did point out quite a few things that I didn't know. Like I shouldn't start a sentence with anyway. I didn't know that, no sir.

But what I cant decide is that if I would have sent the second or third draft, so to say, with common errors like typos and tenses removed, wouldn't she have been more effective. The other part of the dilemma is if she wouldn't have acquainted me with the errors I didn't know about, then I would have continued making them till the end. So, all in all, I don't know. I think the time taken for review will not be reduced by much, nor the time to correct those errors, as percentage wise, I will make almost the same number of errors.

Memo to myself, never mix math and writing. But maybe it's to late for that.

Another pointer, continue as is with the review system. The way I see it is, at least I am getting some comments. Now if I stop sending out chapters to her, she will lose her link, which may reduce the comments she points out. Will give out for more reviews once my second or third draft is done, so my fourth or fifth draft is as good as it gets.