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Hello all,
I have a book that I am going to finish, this progress thread is meant to track the progress of it and give me some accountability and encouragement.
The first draft is already finished, and has been finished for a while now. I first started writing this book back in 2008 and finished the first draft a few years ago. It's just something I did on the side while I worked. I'm the type of person who is easily distracted. I have a very hard time staying focused on one thing. I have had the habit in the past of being event driven. I've started many websites that went nowhere (most of them blogs, I've decided that I hate managing blogs). I created a social networking site 3 or 4 years ago for the mental health industry. I ended up folding it because I did not know how to get people on it.
This book that I will finish this year won't go away. I've put off finishing it and it is something that I've thought about on a weekly basis, sometimes on a daily basis. No matter what else I start and end up not finishing or folding, I always end up back at this book. If nothing else, I want to finish the damn thing so I can move on with my life. I already have the next book bouncing around in my head, but I'm not starting on it until I finish this one.
The first draft was hand written, which was a mistake (sort of). While it is faster to type, creatively, there are some advantages to writing a first draft by hand. Next time, I will just use Scrivener, which is what I'm using for the rewrites.
So, I am currently in the rewrite phase. I am altering the story slightly, and excluding a few things I wrote in the first draft. One the first rewrite is done, I should have around 60,000 words (give or take). Then, I will go back through and do a second rewrite. The second rewrite will be to trim the 10% that adds nothing to the story and tie up the loose ends. Then the book goes off to a professional editor (who won't come cheap I'm sure). Once I get it back from an editor, then I design the cover (I already know what I want it to look like) and I take it to market.
If I could kill this thing, I would have already done it. I don't really understand why someone would want to write merely for profit. It just doesn't make sense to me. I'm not knocking it at all, I just have no desire to do it. I would much rather be building online businesses, tinkering with websites, etc. than writing, but it's something that just won't go away.
I have a book that I am going to finish, this progress thread is meant to track the progress of it and give me some accountability and encouragement.
The first draft is already finished, and has been finished for a while now. I first started writing this book back in 2008 and finished the first draft a few years ago. It's just something I did on the side while I worked. I'm the type of person who is easily distracted. I have a very hard time staying focused on one thing. I have had the habit in the past of being event driven. I've started many websites that went nowhere (most of them blogs, I've decided that I hate managing blogs). I created a social networking site 3 or 4 years ago for the mental health industry. I ended up folding it because I did not know how to get people on it.
This book that I will finish this year won't go away. I've put off finishing it and it is something that I've thought about on a weekly basis, sometimes on a daily basis. No matter what else I start and end up not finishing or folding, I always end up back at this book. If nothing else, I want to finish the damn thing so I can move on with my life. I already have the next book bouncing around in my head, but I'm not starting on it until I finish this one.
The first draft was hand written, which was a mistake (sort of). While it is faster to type, creatively, there are some advantages to writing a first draft by hand. Next time, I will just use Scrivener, which is what I'm using for the rewrites.
So, I am currently in the rewrite phase. I am altering the story slightly, and excluding a few things I wrote in the first draft. One the first rewrite is done, I should have around 60,000 words (give or take). Then, I will go back through and do a second rewrite. The second rewrite will be to trim the 10% that adds nothing to the story and tie up the loose ends. Then the book goes off to a professional editor (who won't come cheap I'm sure). Once I get it back from an editor, then I design the cover (I already know what I want it to look like) and I take it to market.
If I could kill this thing, I would have already done it. I don't really understand why someone would want to write merely for profit. It just doesn't make sense to me. I'm not knocking it at all, I just have no desire to do it. I would much rather be building online businesses, tinkering with websites, etc. than writing, but it's something that just won't go away.
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