Gala
"One for the drawer"
What is your criteria for deciding you have reached the end of working on a novel? The decision means you will not revise it further towards publication.
I'm particularly curious in regards to novels that are complete, as opposed to having an idea you fleshed out a bit and decided it did not go anywhere.
And have you gone back to a novel you filed away, a year or two later and then spiffed it up for publication?
I've always been curious about this and it is difficult to learn why in author interviews. They tend to be vague in answering, as is their right.
I don't wonder there may be a few hundred novels languishing in the dust, perhaps publishable but for personal reasons the author moved on.
Thanks.
What is your criteria for deciding you have reached the end of working on a novel? The decision means you will not revise it further towards publication.
I'm particularly curious in regards to novels that are complete, as opposed to having an idea you fleshed out a bit and decided it did not go anywhere.
And have you gone back to a novel you filed away, a year or two later and then spiffed it up for publication?
I've always been curious about this and it is difficult to learn why in author interviews. They tend to be vague in answering, as is their right.
I don't wonder there may be a few hundred novels languishing in the dust, perhaps publishable but for personal reasons the author moved on.
Thanks.