Revision Accomplished
Mar. 4th, 2009 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taylweaverI just finished my handwritten revisions to the first draft of my novel from November. I've been working on them since roughly the beginning of February - which is to say, about a month, maybe a little longer.
I still have plenty of work ahead of me, since I need to get them all into the computer now, so that I can have a real Draft 2, but I've been so eager to get to this point.
Actually, it's not as exciting as I thought it would be. Maybe that's because I'm not *really* done with this round of revisions until I have it all in the computer. Especially because that's when I will start looking around for friends to read it for me, and I'm really eager for feedback, even though I am also a bit worried a lot of it will be bad.
But still, I am done with this step, and that's so much further than I've gotten with any other novel before this. First draft? No problem. I've done a bunch of those. Three for Nanowrimo, and two or three from back in high school. But to take one from first draft to second draft? I didn't even *try* it until I went back to my 2007 Nano novel - and I gave up on that one when I still had a long way to go.
So to actually be done with a second draft? That's an exciting concept.
And to do it pretty much within the target amount of time (I was hoping to be done within a month, and add on a couple of extra days because that month was February.), that's feels even better.
I still have plenty of work ahead of me, since I need to get them all into the computer now, so that I can have a real Draft 2, but I've been so eager to get to this point.
Actually, it's not as exciting as I thought it would be. Maybe that's because I'm not *really* done with this round of revisions until I have it all in the computer. Especially because that's when I will start looking around for friends to read it for me, and I'm really eager for feedback, even though I am also a bit worried a lot of it will be bad.
But still, I am done with this step, and that's so much further than I've gotten with any other novel before this. First draft? No problem. I've done a bunch of those. Three for Nanowrimo, and two or three from back in high school. But to take one from first draft to second draft? I didn't even *try* it until I went back to my 2007 Nano novel - and I gave up on that one when I still had a long way to go.
So to actually be done with a second draft? That's an exciting concept.
And to do it pretty much within the target amount of time (I was hoping to be done within a month, and add on a couple of extra days because that month was February.), that's feels even better.
