i'll tell him that, then.
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aamcnamaraRevision-in-progress, new working title Badass Library Hermits (hey, I have to keep myself entertained somehow):
...which is the end of part two.
Obviously: I have decided not to stress about writing 5,000 words a day on this redraft. I never really made a coherent choice on whether I'm going to submit said draft or not, but I kept wavering so much on the decision that it seemed like a bad idea to stress myself out over it and stop myself from doing things like catching up on reading (for example, I got About Writing from the library last week, but haven't even opened it yet).
But, as obviously, I am still going to keep working on said re-draft. It makes a lot more sense and is way more coherent than the previous draft. And if I finish it a week or two after my birthday--well, I could send it in anyway and hope that they go "yeah, all right, it was mostly written when she was eighteen" or I could just keep revising/reconsidering it until I feel like it really is ready to be sent out/queried to agents. Either way, I'll be happier with the draft I end up with and also just happier in general with how stressed or tense my days have been recently.
(It is useful to know that I can still write 25k reasonably coherent words in a week. If I had an actual deadline, I could have kept going, I'm pretty certain. I also would've skipped library-work today, not stopped at a bookstore to read the rest of Will Grayson, Will Grayson (verdict: not quite as awesome as I was hoping from the beginning?)... but it just doesn't quite seem worth all of that as it is.)
At the same time, I do want to get back to working on The Urban Fantasy Novel, because I have gotten so close to the end of that. Which is another reason to slow down on this--I don't want to just skip off on something new and abandon that first draft.
I am happy with this decision. It is more sane, I think. Maybe I am missing a golden opportunity, but this is my life and I get to run it how I want to. So there?
26.5 / 80
...which is the end of part two.
Obviously: I have decided not to stress about writing 5,000 words a day on this redraft. I never really made a coherent choice on whether I'm going to submit said draft or not, but I kept wavering so much on the decision that it seemed like a bad idea to stress myself out over it and stop myself from doing things like catching up on reading (for example, I got About Writing from the library last week, but haven't even opened it yet).
But, as obviously, I am still going to keep working on said re-draft. It makes a lot more sense and is way more coherent than the previous draft. And if I finish it a week or two after my birthday--well, I could send it in anyway and hope that they go "yeah, all right, it was mostly written when she was eighteen" or I could just keep revising/reconsidering it until I feel like it really is ready to be sent out/queried to agents. Either way, I'll be happier with the draft I end up with and also just happier in general with how stressed or tense my days have been recently.
(It is useful to know that I can still write 25k reasonably coherent words in a week. If I had an actual deadline, I could have kept going, I'm pretty certain. I also would've skipped library-work today, not stopped at a bookstore to read the rest of Will Grayson, Will Grayson (verdict: not quite as awesome as I was hoping from the beginning?)... but it just doesn't quite seem worth all of that as it is.)
At the same time, I do want to get back to working on The Urban Fantasy Novel, because I have gotten so close to the end of that. Which is another reason to slow down on this--I don't want to just skip off on something new and abandon that first draft.
I am happy with this decision. It is more sane, I think. Maybe I am missing a golden opportunity, but this is my life and I get to run it how I want to. So there?
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Date: 2010-07-20 02:09 am (UTC)You will have a smaller group to compete against in this; that's it. You can send this book or the UFN to agents any time.
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Date: 2010-07-20 02:27 am (UTC)(It really helped to talk it over with you and
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Date: 2010-07-20 02:34 am (UTC)Yeah -- you are in this for the long haul. If you finish it within a few weeks of your birthday and want to send it in, great. If not -- you've got many years of writing ahead of you.
I published my first short story at 31, and it felt MAGNIFICENT no matter what age I was.