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rainwaterspark) wrote2020-02-23 10:58 am
rainwaterspark) wrote2020-02-23 10:58 am
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I'm not quite done with revising Novel #3, but for the first time in literally 8-9 months...I feel like I've made progress???
My wordcount is back up to what the original draft's was, even though I technically still have two scenes left to fill in. However, I'm going to need to do an in-depth—possibly multiple—editing pass(es) to fix major consistency issues, and I have a feeling the wordcount will grow even more. Which is a good thing, because one of the indie presses I was planning to submit to if no agent takes on this manuscript has a minimum wordcount of 70k (5k more than my original draft).
I'm optimistic, but I'm also annoyed that my progress overall has been slowed down by the fact that (1) I can only write on weekends now, and (2) Real Life Obligations are always in the way (I have to do taxes soon, aaaaaaargh). I feel like I may, just may, be getting close, even though the revised draft right now is still kind of a mess.
It may take until the end of March to clean up my revised draft (if I were to estimate conservatively), and of course I'm going to need beta readers to give me their thoughts on the revision. I should still have time to enter RevPit, and everything after that will depend on how that turns out.
My wordcount is back up to what the original draft's was, even though I technically still have two scenes left to fill in. However, I'm going to need to do an in-depth—possibly multiple—editing pass(es) to fix major consistency issues, and I have a feeling the wordcount will grow even more. Which is a good thing, because one of the indie presses I was planning to submit to if no agent takes on this manuscript has a minimum wordcount of 70k (5k more than my original draft).
I'm optimistic, but I'm also annoyed that my progress overall has been slowed down by the fact that (1) I can only write on weekends now, and (2) Real Life Obligations are always in the way (I have to do taxes soon, aaaaaaargh). I feel like I may, just may, be getting close, even though the revised draft right now is still kind of a mess.
It may take until the end of March to clean up my revised draft (if I were to estimate conservatively), and of course I'm going to need beta readers to give me their thoughts on the revision. I should still have time to enter RevPit, and everything after that will depend on how that turns out.