Is it really finished?
Mar. 5th, 2008 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I think I may finally have finished the rough draft of the novel I began during NaNoWriMo back in November. As some of you may recall, I hit 50,000 words - the word count needed to "win", then sort of stopped mid-book.
The "final" word count is around 57,000, and there are definitely some things I wanted to put in there that didn't make it, but hey, it's a rough draft.
And it found a spot to end.
So now, I need to let it sit for a while, and then begin a process that is going to be new and strange for me - actually revising it and getting it past Draft I and into Draft II.
If anyone knows of any good resources on revision, please do let me know.
But meanwhile, I think it's done!
The "final" word count is around 57,000, and there are definitely some things I wanted to put in there that didn't make it, but hey, it's a rough draft.
And it found a spot to end.
So now, I need to let it sit for a while, and then begin a process that is going to be new and strange for me - actually revising it and getting it past Draft I and into Draft II.
If anyone knows of any good resources on revision, please do let me know.
But meanwhile, I think it's done!
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Date: 2008-03-06 04:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-06 12:23 pm (UTC)If by polish you mean make changes bigger than grammar, that's the part where I don't know how to do it.
And yeah, I know to give it time. Part of my frustration with myself was that I already gave it plenty of time - but *before* I finished it. So every time I went back and added a new scene, I felt like I was resetting the clock. But now, after I let it sit, I can actually revise - once I figure out how.
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