Archive for April, 2009

Waiting on The Editor

Friday, April 10th, 2009 | Once It Is Sold, The Writing Life | No Comments

There are many things I did not know when I started the process of trying to sell my work, and still more about the process of publishing after my book was sold. One of those things is that it’s hard to wait for notes.

Now that’s obvious, right? But for some reason, it never occured to me that I would find it difficult to be patient and wait to hear what changes need to be made on the manuscript that I turned in to my editor.

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Writing and Re-Writing

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | Once It Is Sold, The Writing Life | No Comments

I disappeared for months again. In spite of all my best intentions, I keep doing that. This winter, I had a good excuse.

 

I was re-writing my book.

 

When I say re-writing, I don’t mean going over it once more and checking for errors. I meant that I started again at page one, and re-wrote the whole thing. Almost 500 pages. 483 pages, to be exact.

 

If I sound like I’m bragging, it’s because I am.

 

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