Peter Laurent's Blog - Posts Tagged "first-draft"
First Draft of The Covert Academy's sequel is DONE!
Yes! I can come into the sunlight once more. What a marathon.
And what a rough draft it is too! Last time around all I really needed to do was tidy up a few continuity issues, fix up lots and lots of punctuation and grammar mistakes, and formatting for publication. And that still took over a month with help from my parents.
But this draft is a mixed bag of scenes that I'm really happy with and scenes that are either going to be outright deleted and/or rewritten. I've got far more subplots than I ought to, haha.
It's going to be a big job since this first draft clocks in at 83,110 words. That's around the same length as The Covert Academy combined with Scout's Honour. I expect it will be around the 90k mark by the time I'm completely done.
The name of the book will probably change too. I've got a new front-runner which I'm going to try out on a few people I know before announcing it.
Time to start editing!
-Pete
And what a rough draft it is too! Last time around all I really needed to do was tidy up a few continuity issues, fix up lots and lots of punctuation and grammar mistakes, and formatting for publication. And that still took over a month with help from my parents.
But this draft is a mixed bag of scenes that I'm really happy with and scenes that are either going to be outright deleted and/or rewritten. I've got far more subplots than I ought to, haha.
It's going to be a big job since this first draft clocks in at 83,110 words. That's around the same length as The Covert Academy combined with Scout's Honour. I expect it will be around the 90k mark by the time I'm completely done.
The name of the book will probably change too. I've got a new front-runner which I'm going to try out on a few people I know before announcing it.
Time to start editing!
-Pete
