In My Writing Nook...

Patience, readers! STEP WITH ME (Seaside Chapel Book 2) will be out soon. Revising and polishing are not easy tasks. Most of the time, I write by hand on paper. Then I let it sit a bit. Then I revise-type on my Mac. I���m usually able to write very clean scenes and chapters that require very little further revisions.

Then my copyeditor gets the manuscript for 1-2 weeks. Then I get it back, and see what she has found. I correct what I agree with. Then I send the file back to her for double checking. Then we proofread a lot. Then we���re done and I���m ready to format and publish.

Now, all the above gets complicated when I have to do research. That can take a long time����� weeks, months, years����� and it depends on what I am researching. That will add more time ot the writing, for sure. This happens for anything I write with suspense and thriller elements in in.

To top it all, the entire process begins with plotting and outlining. That is the most time-consuming part of my writing process. I can plot for weeks, months, years...