So thanks to a couple of great writing days, the revision is almost done. I thought yesterday it was, but overnight I've decided to tweak one scene and re-write another from the hero's POV to bring some of the overarching storyline more clearly to the fore at the end.
There's a different sense to this book compared to the first trilogy – the overarching storyline isn't as clear and so I wonder if that's going to impact the reader's desire to move on. I'll leave it to smarter minds than mine to decide that.
So once I've done this last bit of writing, I'll plot it against a couple of charts I use to ensure pacings there and so on. Then I'll do my spell check and it's done.
Tweak the synopsis, let finger hover over the button for a while as I consider whether I really want to do this. Then send to the publisher and hope she loves it.
The neuroses of a writer don't die with a publishing contract – you just develop new ones.
Published on May 18, 2011 00:23