Postcrastination and a Pep Talk to Myself
I haven’t done much on this blog because I am editing like a maniac. Right now I feel like a tiny snowplow pushing the results of the whole East Coast Storm in front of me. I did hit the quarter mark today, which gives me cause for a small celebration, as long as I don’t think in terms of 75 percent left to go- which I do.
Still, it’s going well even though it’s slow. A couple of beta readers have requested a few chapters at a time, so I’ve been getting some feedback as I go and that’s been both encouraging and helpful. There might be some mistakes I can nip in the bud.
I’ve been taking short breaks every day to get this blog fixed up after the move- mostly editing hyperlinks and such. I got to the end of the posts today and saw one that I’d written a year ago. Frankly, I was shocked. One year ago, I was still hammering out the concept and writing character profiles. I hadn’t even started on my second first draft. So I’ve been working on this incarnation of my book for less than a year. Looking at it that way, it’s not so bad.
Even after I finally got started, I made so many mistakes and constantly second-guessed myself. I think I cut nearly as many words as I wrote. Seen that way, it’s amazing that I’m just weeks away from having a pretty clean manuscript that won’t be harmful to my beta readers. That makes me pretty happy!
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That won’t be harmful to my beta readers! Well THAT’S good to know. LOL Will email you soon. Glad you finally got your site sorted out. What a headache, huh?
I have to keep y’all in good working order, for you have much reading ahead of you!
I just got the hyperlinks fixed, then realized the links on the pages need to be done, too.
You poor thing… I feel for ya.
I’m just glad I did this when I had less than 100 blog posts, rather than some future time when I’d have a lot more!
AMEN TO EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS POST. You can do it. In the meantime, I’ve officially nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award! Thanks for helping me feel like a part of the writing community. Read my post to learn how to accept if you so choose. Happy weekend!https://witandtravesty.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/we-accept-cheers-to-our-first-blogger-award/
Aw, thanks so much! I’ll check it out.
My buddy the dragonfly lady sent me here. Hey. Nice to meet you.
Hi! Nice to meet you too. Funny, I knew who you meant right away by dragonfly lady.
Isn’t the writing journey an incredible one? 🙂
It is! Even when I’m complaining, I still love it.
Writing a book in one year is quite the accomplishment 😀 When I first started writing fanfic, I think I wrote 100,000 words in the first year, and then in the next four I wrote 100,000 more XD I took several hiatuses after that first year. . . My fanfic novel was only 2/3 of the way finished too. I didn’t know at the time that novels aren’t supposed to be that long :$ I came a long way in those five years though. I look back on it and I’m proud of it ^^ It’s a good feeling 🙂
That’s a lot of words! But my novel is around 150K right now, and I’ve cut a good 15k in this editing pass. That doesn’t include the 70K I cut last year when I removed two pov’s. Yikes! I guess I like to write a lot of words, then delete them. 🙂
I thought fanfics can be as long as you want. I’m beta-reading one that’s around 180K and still unfinished. All that writing is great practice, though. That’s how you learn.