3 wondrous paradoxes of a slow writing process

I think Roz Morris does a great job pinning down her topic for todays’ re-blog in that title up there :-)

Nail Your Novel

How many drafts does a novel need? Some are ready for an editor by the second or third draft. Others – like mine – are assembled in slow layers of revisions, a process of discovery. There’s more about that in What Takes Literary Authors So Long.

I wouldn’t be surprised if I went through a manuscript at least 50 times, but I’ve never counted. So for Ever Rest I’m keeping a...