Also, I realized it's now been one year since I started work on my book. That's a long time considering I still have a lot to do.

I'm working on the conclusion now, however I'm having to redo more of the rough draft of it than I thought. Shocking, I know.

Then I'll rough out an outline of the additions to the next revision. I'll be chopping a good chunk out of the beginning to get things moving a little faster, chopping a sequence out of the middle to remove some characters and eliminate a bunch of words, and maybe chopping a few selected scenes to kill words (besides if they're choppable, they probably don't need to be there).

Still working on the conclusion, but its coming along. Maybe another push this weekend will finish things off.

Also, I added my map to my blog. It's very exciting, well, not so much for anyone that's not me.

I Play a Writer on the Internet

I need to do better blog entries, but I'm always in a hurry when I write them. Maybe I'll do better when I'm refining instead of rewriting. Right now I'm grinding away without really trying to improve the quality of the writing and learning more bits of craft.

If anyone has a blog you'd like me to link to, let me know so that my literally ones of readers can know about it.

Gud, I keep meaning to say, considering you wrote it and are already almost done rewriting it, a year is not long at all. You're being methodical and very dedicated, and that's awesome.

Meanwhile, I just asked my editor for a short extension on my deadline, and am feeling Made of Fail. And waiting for a reply.

I think I'm impatient to get from rewriting everything to refining and polishing. I've learned a lot since I've started. I don't think I have much talent with graceful prose, but it strikes me now that in a novel that's just one component of the whole. There's plotting, dialogue, scene-construction, characterization, and succinctness. I've started to believe I can produce a decent book despite not being a great wordsmith.

Meanwhile, I just asked my editor for a short extension on my deadline, and am feeling Made of Fail. And waiting for a reply.

Shut up.

You're not Made of Fail. You're trying to give her the best product possible.

So... shut up.

I know, it just feels that way.

You want to read what I have so far, just for general impressions?

You want to read what I have so far, just for general impressions?

Sure, send away.

Who has two thumbs and a completed revision?

Okay, I still have a little clean-up and read-through to do on the final chapters and the epilogue, but the rewriting is done for this round.

Now for editing, chopping, some new scenes in places, adverb killing, and other fun things.