Neverending Revisions

“You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course.”

Remember when I had my New Year goals? Well, I’m a bit behind schedule. The only thing I’ve gotten done is getting the research books for my next Taiwanese YA novel (not reading them, mind you, just having them sit prettily on the bookshelf).

They say half of writing (if not more!) is revising. It’s funny how I’ve gone through my manuscript so many times, gotten other eyes on it, and I still manage to constantly tweak words and sentences. My projected finish date was February to edit it all, but it’s now the end of the month, so I’m definitely going past that self-imposed deadline.

At the same time, I’m also slowly polishing a novella with my local writers’ group. I’ve also submitted a Winston Wong short story to a few magazines, but no word so far….

I’m not creating any new content, though, and that always makes me feel unwriterly. Unless…would you count rewriting as writing?

Hope you all are pursuing your goals with much diligence!