I Hate The Final Readthrough – The Climb #517

Thursday 23rd July 2020

I’m not sure what it is but the final readthrough is one of my least favourite parts of the process.

I don’t know what exactly it is, but the intense focus whilst reading the draft one last time before it gets sent off always feels a bit like torture to me.

I learnt a while back that it’s not the story.  Indeed I’ve actually been really enjoying both the story and the prose to the extent that I’ve had to remind myself that I wrote this.  Everyone else might hate this book...