I'm catching up with myself

[pjthompson]

I've finished through chapter 17 on Venus. I'd finished 22 chapters of the novel before I realized something was horribly wrong and needed to be fixed before I could proceed to the denouement. My life went a little south on me, too, there for awhile, so it's taken much longer than anticipated to sweep through the zero draft and fix everything.

Those middle chapters were ugly, ugly, ugly and I did extensive rewrites in some cases. But the chapters I'm going through now have far less that needs changing. They're moving along pretty fast. I'm much happier with the book I have now and once I really do catch up with myself I think I can wrap this up fairly quickly.

Think being the operative word. I never like to make bald predictions about my work's progress because inevitably something comes up I hadn't anticipated, but this is looking hopeful.

So, we'll see what we will see.


Venus in Transit first draft rewrite:



Venus in Transit total first draft finished:

Comments

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

When you get the rewrite finished, I want this book.

I need to know if I should hate you forever or not. ;)

[pjthompson]

Same here with Delia. :-)

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

You've done a great job of improving the work and making it snappier. You should definitely be happier with the book, and very proud of yourself.

[pjthompson]

Thank you, sir! Now, if I can just make the denouement live up to the hype.