zeroth draft DONE
May. 30th, 2023 12:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnozomiThe zeroth draft of book 2 of my original thing is finally done! (No reactions necessary, just sorting out my head.) Just barely under 88K, about where I expected it to fall. The last scene fought me like nobody's business and I'm still not one bit happy with it, but it fulfills its minimum functions and will do until I can figure out what the hell I actually want to say.
Zeroth because I now have so much revision to do. At the sentence-by-sentence level, including consistency (reading through I've already found at least one inconsistency of about three miles and another of almost five years, oy), in terms of overall themes and arcs (oy, aiyo, aargh), and in accordance with the seven pages of one-line notes to myself that have built up while I was writing it. Some have already been incorporated and others are mostly book 3-relevant, but that still leaves a lot of things to be worked in/reworked somehow...
God knows how long this part will take--depending on time and motivation, anywhere from three weeks (unlikely) to three months. Ideally I want to be done with the first big round of revisions, and thus have something resembling an actual first draft, by sometime in July; then I can send it out to beta readers (assuming I have any) and take some time over the fall to work on their reactions, write fics for the Guardian wishlist (if it runs this year) and Yuletide, and unwind a bit. And maybe start book 3 in the new year? (I know, you're supposed to spend more time on the revision process, but I need to keep writing.)
Anyway. Phew. (That was a lot of parentheses, oh dear.) Please expect nonstop griping about the revision process for a while, to be ignored at will.
Be safe and well.
Zeroth because I now have so much revision to do. At the sentence-by-sentence level, including consistency (reading through I've already found at least one inconsistency of about three miles and another of almost five years, oy), in terms of overall themes and arcs (oy, aiyo, aargh), and in accordance with the seven pages of one-line notes to myself that have built up while I was writing it. Some have already been incorporated and others are mostly book 3-relevant, but that still leaves a lot of things to be worked in/reworked somehow...
God knows how long this part will take--depending on time and motivation, anywhere from three weeks (unlikely) to three months. Ideally I want to be done with the first big round of revisions, and thus have something resembling an actual first draft, by sometime in July; then I can send it out to beta readers (assuming I have any) and take some time over the fall to work on their reactions, write fics for the Guardian wishlist (if it runs this year) and Yuletide, and unwind a bit. And maybe start book 3 in the new year? (I know, you're supposed to spend more time on the revision process, but I need to keep writing.)
Anyway. Phew. (That was a lot of parentheses, oh dear.) Please expect nonstop griping about the revision process for a while, to be ignored at will.
Be safe and well.
