The 1st Draft of my novel WALKING OFF PLUTO is at last complete at 77,000 words. How do I feel? Very excited and a little sad. I'm attached to my characters and want to continue their stories, but I wrote the novel with the full intentions of it being a stand-alone novel.
I am determined to get this book published. I will be patient. I will edit it. I will make hundreds of revisions until I am beyond satisfied. If it takes a year, so be it. I'm not rushing this time and ruining my chances with a crappy query and bad editing. Agents expect polished manuscripts.
But I'm also not going to jump right into editing either. I'm giving myself a two week break to work on other projects: my play and my unfinished Nano book. My play revisions have a real deadline, so that's a priority. My nano book, I should have finished months ago, but Pluto took over my writing world. I also have two novels I wrote back in 2010 that need editing. OH wow. I have lots to do!
No new projects until the old projects have been worked on. I have a list of pitches for future novels, but I will hold off on writing any of them until summer.
Yay for more daylighT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Congratulations N! I know that excited sad feeling you're talking about. I remember tearing up (yes this is crazy) in Panera when I wrote my last paragraph.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with revisions. (Wise to give it some time, I think)