Wow. I've finished another draft - That's number 4 if you're counting. What's that? What's next? Why, draft #5, of course...
Draft four added several thousand words and took into account suggestions and notes from my writer's group on the first 75k words.
Hopefully this last draft is just spelling and grammar and little things, but who knows?
I'm not sure what my deal is, whether I'm more patient as a writer or more interested in getting the best out of my work, but I don't mind doing more revisions. It's terrible at times, changing or deleting things I'd gone over so many times, but if it makes a better story, so be it.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
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4 comments:
Are you sure you're not just delaying the inevitable time when you ahve to submit it?
You know Martin, I'm really thinking about that very idea. You can only edit so many times before you have to release it into the wild, right? You don't want to sent out a manuscript that isn't ready, but when is it ready?
I'm going to have my writer's group take a look at it in the next week or so, and let them give me the thumbs up or down. Hopefully that will be a good test.
I don't think we ever imagine a book to totally be finished. I know I always want to make just another tweak. Good enough is a hard concept to grasp, but there does come a time :) I'm into draft 4 of my own novel, so I feel your pain. This one needs a few more rounds, though, before I start the query process. I expect I'll be using a freelance editor to help me out with it, in fact. We'll have to see. I admire your work ethick and desire to get it as good as possible before letting go.
One Writer's Mind
Did I say "ethick?" Cripes.
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