Not a lot going on this week…I’m putting the finishing touches on my WIP’s second revision and still on track to have it to my agent in May. With the plot locked and the characters and pacing all at a place I’m happy with, I’m at the point where the real fun begins – where I can spend an hour tinkering with one paragraph, one sentence, just getting the words right. I can try different paragraph breaks, play with the punctuation. I can spend my time making it better, not just it making it.
For want of a better way to put it, the “music” is done, now it’s just grace notes.
Since I don’t have a lot to say, I thought I would point you in the direction of a much better writer and blogger – a great post by Chuck Wendig. All the advice here is wonderful, and I wish I had heard it a decade ago.
But the most important take-away is #10 – Just Finish Your Shit. It dovetails with what I was saying above, and if there’s anyone thing I’ve discussed here the most often, when I run down my lists and schedules and tricks (101 ways to get to the finish line) it’s advice and support on getting to the place where I am now with my current book: 107,000 completed words.
Are they all good? I dunno. Not yet, anyway.
But they’re all done, and that’s 2/3 of the battle. Hell, for those of us trying to really tackle writing as a career, that’s the war.
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