done with 1st edit pass
So yeah. I “finished” my rough draft last Sunday @100k words. Yeah, I wrote 50k words in 19 days. That’s seems nuts. I didn’t even realize that until I went back and looked.
Note that I’m not saying it’s anything other than voluminous crap – but one can hope.
Then I spent a week or so re-reading the whole thing, attempting to clean-up and re-unify the beginning, cutting out the prologue (because I wouldn’t want to send that as a “1st 5 pages” type thing…whatever it is you submit – I don’t think it’s gripping in any way, so I just cut it. Maybe it would have some use as the inside-jacket thing on in a hardcover printing :) heh), trying to catch as many typos & grammar-ish things as I could. I’ve got it 75% printed and ready for my dear 1st reader. I cut it down to 99.4k – I really wanted it to be under 80k – funny huh? No way I could cut that much. Or is there… ? Still, 100k is not that long anymore… maybe it’s just about right.
I’m not really sure what to do now. Start writing something else I guess? I think I have an idea for another series, which I figure I should start before this sequel – because if I finish a sequel, then I’ve still only got 1 book to sell – can’t sell #2 without selling #1. But I think I should keep in the habit. It was pretty draining though, basically writing every free second I had. Maybe I will take a break. I suppose it’s like riding a bike.
It better be.
props…and it’s totally more like 25 pages or something.