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I took along the laptop last night to the music gig because there was a four hour gap between the time we were expected to set up and the time we were to start playing... and in that time, I finished the first draft of the current novel (which still doesn't have a title I like yet, but for the time being is simply called MUSE). I started this one on May 6, and so it was almost 7 months to the day from starting to "The End" of the first draft: The first draft weighs in at 111,700 words.
Mind you, that means that the real work now gets to start. Denise, who is my trusted beta reader, has already identified some areas that needs significant work and there are the notes I made to myself as I went along. If the revision follows my usual pattern, I'll end up significantly adding to the word count, not subtracting from it. Oh, don't worry, there will be lots of sentences and phrases and words and maybe even entire scenes deleted -- because it's a first draft and that means that some of the writing,well sucks -- but additional and/or expanded scenes will replace the squalid first attempts.
Still, it feels good to have the first draft over with, because that means I can finally see the whole structure. And I love revision -- because that's where the novel starts to actually become good... So we'll start that now!
Mind you, that means that the real work now gets to start. Denise, who is my trusted beta reader, has already identified some areas that needs significant work and there are the notes I made to myself as I went along. If the revision follows my usual pattern, I'll end up significantly adding to the word count, not subtracting from it. Oh, don't worry, there will be lots of sentences and phrases and words and maybe even entire scenes deleted -- because it's a first draft and that means that some of the writing,well sucks -- but additional and/or expanded scenes will replace the squalid first attempts.
Still, it feels good to have the first draft over with, because that means I can finally see the whole structure. And I love revision -- because that's where the novel starts to actually become good... So we'll start that now!
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