The Loathing Draft
Feb. 17th, 2009 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI know that I am well and truly done with a ms. when I reach what I've come to call the Loathing Draft. That's where you don't think you can read through/rewrite the damned thing one more time without doing yourself injury and there's nothing left but to finish up the edit and start sending it out.
If an agent wants changes, or an editor is willing to pay me for the book, then I will happily and yippy-skippily make the changes. Otherwise, it's time for this book to make it's way in the world. Three-quarters of the book to go, and some of that I expect to be hard sailing. The chapters I've done so far have mostly needed a language/clarification polish, but the middle of the manuscript may be something of a Sargasso Sea. Such is the writing life! Yo ho, yo ho.
A Rain of Angels
If an agent wants changes, or an editor is willing to pay me for the book, then I will happily and yippy-skippily make the changes. Otherwise, it's time for this book to make it's way in the world. Three-quarters of the book to go, and some of that I expect to be hard sailing. The chapters I've done so far have mostly needed a language/clarification polish, but the middle of the manuscript may be something of a Sargasso Sea. Such is the writing life! Yo ho, yo ho.
A Rain of Angels
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Date: 2009-02-18 07:42 am (UTC)Hey, you gonna share that bottle of rum or not????
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