Starting the Last One

Submitted by Stuart on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:40pm

Today I start my last chapter of my first draft.

I only have a few hours to write today (and then I'm going to the Caribbean!*), but I have a day off on Monday too, so hopefully I'll be able to finish the last chapter then.

As I've mentioned before, I've already started the revision process. I'm taking a fresh print out of part one with me on vacation, which is 15 chapters. I read through them a few months ago, but I still need to cut out a bunch more words. So, I'll be weilding my red pen while sitting on the beach. With a few Mai Tai's of course. I mean coffee. Yeah. Coffee... Ahem.

No, I won't be working all the time. But I find the revision process relaxing somehow. At least, marking up hardcopy is relaxing. I'll be back to pulling my hair out when I sit down to rewrite chapters 1 and 2 from scratch. :)

See you on Monday!

*This is the first vacation we've taken that didn't involve family in many, many, many years... And we're leaving the kids with the grandparents. Another first in many, many, many years. :)


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