And so it begins . . .

My last post was about finishing my novel, but it was just the first full draft. Now comes the rewriting. I heard from one of my pre-readers that the ending feels like it was wrapped up too quickly. That thought went through my head as I was writing it, and I think I wrapped it up quickly because I was afraid the book was going to be too long. Now that I know I have to cut at least one character, that might help shorten it a bit, but I'm going to have to go back into it with the realization that there are end-problems. Funny, this seems to be an issue I've had with most of my books.

Endings and beginnings. The two most important pieces of a book.

Back to the draft -- after I finish the draft of the Izzy book, which is pretty close to being done. This one will be a lot shorter than the novel, and there are empty spaces to fill with this one.

The writer's work is never done!