Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Where Am I (in the Process of Writing My Novel)?
For those of you who are interested, I thought I'd share with you where I'm at in the process of writing my novel.
I've been working on it for probably three years in total. I don't remember the exact date what I was working on at the time became a full-fledged novel, but I think it was in early 2012.
I finished the first draft a little over a year ago. I remember that because, after I was done, I printed a hard copy, punched holes in the sheets, and inserted them into a large binder. I needed to feel the heft of what I'd accomplished, and I remember how proud I felt.
Then I took that binder with me to my hometown, where I was visiting my mother. I wanted her to see what her "retired" son had been doing with his time. She seemed impressed with the pile of pages, but had no concept of just how much work I had ahead of me to shape them into something worthwhile.
That means for the past year or so I've been editing. The number of chapters changed recently, but I'm roughly in the middle of rewrites, around Chapter Sixteen. I'd like to think I'll be done this round of edits by the end of 2015. But, based on what my schedule's been like this year, I'm more likely to be done some time in 2016, hopefully by summer.
That's okay. I'm not in a rush. My goal is to write something I'm proud of, not something I threw together, just so I could get it out there to see if I could make any money.
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