Editing my first novel took me 6 or 8 months. I was expecting the same marathon with novel number three, but I am a couple of chapters in, and it has only taken me a couple of hours. I think my writing may actually be getting better. Gadzooks!
I started editing my third novel, and you know what, it doesn't suck!
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good for you, Prawn. Nothing better than seeing what you wrote doesn't suck.
I have to admit when I read the thread title I thought it said "I've started eating my third novel"
I'm not sure why.
I have to admit when I read the thread title I thought it said "I've started eating my third novel"
I'm not sure why.
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Good! I know the feeling, and it was with book 3 as well. Guess three's the lucky number. Then I go back to look at the first and I cry. A long road of editing and self doubt lies before me...
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What a great feeling! Not sucking is actually one of the hardest accomplishments out there. Well done!
Wow! Congrats!
I wish I could say the same thing with my marathon editing. Although, in fairness, this time round has been shorter than the last...
I'm still up to 5 months thus far and it's excruciating.
Good luck to you!
I wish I could say the same thing with my marathon editing. Although, in fairness, this time round has been shorter than the last...
I'm still up to 5 months thus far and it's excruciating.
Good luck to you!
It took me...let me count...
<Zombies, ringworlds, werewolves, zombies again, R.E.M, space ships, werewolves in cuba...>
Eight books to get a book I still think is good!
<Zombies, ringworlds, werewolves, zombies again, R.E.M, space ships, werewolves in cuba...>
Eight books to get a book I still think is good!
I never said that it was good, much less that it was great fiction. I am currently happy to aspire to the level of not sucking.
I have been working on it an hour or two per day for the past week, and I am about 1/3 of the way though the first edit. Three weeks for the first edit is astounding since it took three months for the first edit of my first book. I think that as I am writing, I am forseeing many of the problems that I used to have to hunt for. I am either fixing them, or leaving myself a breadcrumb <Make sure he knows about Linda's death here.> as I go, so the editing is easier than last time.
This is my third novel. If I can climb out of the suckage stage in the first edit, I will have that much more time to polish it and make it shine. One day, if I write a zillion novels, the first draft might just come out already more or less polished! Zounds!
P.S. Am I allowed to say that storygirl is hot?
I have been working on it an hour or two per day for the past week, and I am about 1/3 of the way though the first edit. Three weeks for the first edit is astounding since it took three months for the first edit of my first book. I think that as I am writing, I am forseeing many of the problems that I used to have to hunt for. I am either fixing them, or leaving myself a breadcrumb <Make sure he knows about Linda's death here.> as I go, so the editing is easier than last time.
This is my third novel. If I can climb out of the suckage stage in the first edit, I will have that much more time to polish it and make it shine. One day, if I write a zillion novels, the first draft might just come out already more or less polished! Zounds!
P.S. Am I allowed to say that storygirl is hot?
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